The Dane certified nineteenth for this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix whereas team-mate Nico Hulkenberg continued his sturdy one-lap kind by working to tenth place in Budapest.
Magnussen blamed a 0.511s hole in Q1, when each automobiles had been working with laborious tyres below the experimental Different Tyre Allocation, on his discomfort aboard the VF-23.
He says that because the automotive has advanced, he has struggled to seek out consistency in low-fuel and new-tyre situations because the dealing with has moved away from his pure driving fashion.
“[I’m] struggling to seek out consistency with this yr’s automotive,” stated Magnussen. “For some purpose, I am struggling a bit on low gas, new tyres to extract the utmost out of the automotive.
“Numerous inconsistency for me and as you’ve got seen in FP3, I had purple sector one after which I am the slowest on sector two, so going very excessive there.
“It is nearly like my normal power have develop into my weak point on this automotive.”
Magnussen added that he was content material along with his long-run tempo. Nonetheless, this has been a selected weak point of Haas this season owing to its struggles to know and handle tyre put on over a race stint.
Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-23
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Requested to clarify why his {old} strengths had been now working towards him, Magnussen stated: “It is my inherent driving fashion tendencies which are working towards me in the intervening time with the particular limitations of the automotive.
“Nico is clearly seeming to extract extra out of the automotive [over] one lap, new tyres. After which on excessive gas, it is totally different story. So, it is a bit of a complicated one. However I will work on it.”
Requested by Autosport whether or not Magnussen had felt this downturn since testing in March or whether or not the automotive had extra progressively advanced away from his candy spot, he stated: “I wish to say the automotive’s bought higher, however it’s gotten worse for me, when it comes to my particular driving fashion.
“It appears to be changing into greater and greater, the problem that I am inflicting within the automotive with my driving fashion.
“It is laborious to vary some issues in your driving fashion. You possibly can change lots of issues, however some issues are so pure and so computerized, it is laborious to vary.”
Discussing whether or not he may adapt based mostly on the info from Hulkenberg, Magnussen reckoned that to comply with the German too intently may depart him in “no-man’s land”.
He stated: “I can see what he is doing and what the variations are. However some issues in your driving fashion are actually laborious to vary.
“In case you change issues which are very pure to you, you find yourself in no-man’s land… the earlier yr’s [car] has not been an issue. Now immediately, I discover myself in a little bit of a pickle.”