Haas have mixed memories of last year's race in Australia. Having qualified sixth and seventh (which became fifth and sixth after Daniel Ricciardo's grid penalty), Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean then ran fourth and fifth in the race before successive botched pit stops put the American team out in nightmare circumstances (with the scenes now immortalised in Netflix's Drive To Survive series).
This year, as they seek redemption, Grosjean and Magnussen have qualified sixth and seventh once more. And it's safe to say they and their team were happy with their afternoon's work in qualifying...
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