Chassis change for Gutierrez in Bahrain

Haas preferred to replace the one damaged in the impact with the McLaren in Australia

di Chiara RainisMarch 27, 2016

Co-protagonist of the spectacular accident in Melbourne that saw Fernando Alonso hover in the air and do pirouettes Esteban Gutierrez it took a bit of a backseat.

Caught at Turn 3 at Albert Park with a Haas VF16 dented, for next weekend's Bahrain GP the Mexican will be forced to change the chassis.

“We sent the car to Europe for an in-depth check that was impossible to do in Sakhir and we came to the conclusion that having already had all the useful parts available, it was better to produce a new chassis to assemble, leaving the repaired one as a reserve” – the team manager's statement Gunther Steiner reported by F1i.com

“The guys in the factory will have to work night and day but F1 is also this. As far as I'm concerned, I'm calm. I know I can count on professionals prepared to face similar commitments” – concluded the South Tyrolean.

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