Kevin Magnussen will bethe sole recipient of Haas' upgrade package at the Hungarian Grand Prix, withMick Schumacher missing out due to a lack of suitable parts. This is Haas' first majorupgrade of the 2022 season, but without enough parts to service both cars,Magnussen will get the updates thanks to his superior position in the Drivers' Championship. "As many people know, wewaited a bit longer to bring our upgrade to track because I think we still havegood pace," Haas Team Principal Guenther Steiner told media including RacingNews365.com . "Now what we want to do isput performance on. We know what it should be doing from our development. We'lljust have to wait and see what we can get out of the package."
Development delays led to parts shortage
Steiner added that theshortage of new parts was related to delays in their development, a situationnot helped by Mick Schumacher's two heavy crashes in Monaco and Jeddah that requiredreplacement parts to be built. "In the end, we couldn't get two car kits to the race track, so with Kevin being in front in thechampionship, we gave him the package to try," said Steiner. "Unfortunately, we had afew delays in the development stage, so we postponed it from the French GrandPrix to Hungary. "Also, with the sparessituation we had at the beginning of the season, up to race seven or eight, wefell a bit behind in production and therefore we don’t have enough parts fortwo cars. "We struggle with spareparts for one car so hopefully we can get it done and bring it to Hungary. "Everybodyhas worked really hard – the team and our suppliers – to make this happen soI'm still very happy that we bring it on one car to Hungary. "We want to get some databefore the summer break so we have something to work from when we get back, andif all goes well we'll have it on both cars." Despite having only mademinor changes to the VF-22 since the start of the season, Haas are currentlyseventh in the Constructors’ Championship, with Magnussen scoring the team's bestresult since 2018 with fifth place at the Australian Grand Prix.
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