Haas boss Guenther Steiner mentioned the U.S.-owned Method One workforce’s return to type within the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix couldn’t have been scripted any higher.

Kevin Magnussen completed fifth for the workforce on the Sakhir desert monitor on Sunday.

The consequence was the outfit’s highest end because the Austrian Grand Prix in 2018, their greatest season in F1 but.

It took them from final within the last standings of 2021 to 3rd after this season’s opening weekend, behind solely powerhouses Ferrari and Mercedes.

“If you concentrate on the final two years after which coming again like this, you can not write a narrative like this,” Steiner advised Sky Sports activities F1.

“The blokes on the racetrack the final two years, that they had robust occasions however saved their head low. We will all be very proud. I am happy with them.

“It is simply improbable,” he added.

Haas have endured a tricky time over the previous few years. They ended final season as the one workforce to not rating a degree.

Extra just lately, they have been caught up within the fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and have been pressured to sever ties with Russian racer Nikita Mazepin and his oligarch father’s potash-producing title sponsor Uralkali.

They then misplaced half a day’s working on the last pre-season take a look at in Bahrain on account of freight delays after the plane carrying their cargo, together with their automotive, hit a technical snag.

However the efficiency of their 2022 automotive, into which the workforce had ploughed all of their assets, seems to have handed them the break they wanted.

“Issues occur in life,” mentioned Steiner.

“A month in the past it was a totally totally different state of affairs and now rapidly we’re fifth.”

Magnussen, who joined the workforce in 2017 however was changed for 2021 together with workforce mate Romain Grosjean in favour of an all-rookie line up of Mazepin and Mick Schumacher, was re-hired on the eve of the season to interchange the sacked Russian.

“It is so good to be again on this place,” mentioned the 29-year-old, who endured a two seasons of battle in 2019 and 2020 with the workforce.

“It was only a totally different story to previously.”

Schumacher solely simply missed out on making it a double factors end for the workforce, though his Eleventh-place end was a profession greatest consequence for the son of seven time world champion Michael.

“From right here on I believe he is hungry for factors as nicely,” Steiner mentioned.