Following on from a successful test in Bahrain, Haas Formula 1 team has confirmed they will make the switch from Brembo to Carbone Industrie brakes for the Russian Grand Prix.
Haas suffered constant issues with the Brembo system throughout its inaugural season, the most notable problem came with Romain Grosjean crashing out of the Malaysian Grand Prix after a brake failure sent him into the gravel of the final corner on lap seven.
The American team will try out the new brakes at a race weekend for the first time this season, team principal Guenther Steiner is keen to ensure brakes are another problem taken away from the team’s list of potential issues further down the line.
Steiner spoke to Motorsport.com saying: “At the moment we have all options open to us.
“We need to see how we do in FP1, and then we’ll see what we’ll do for the rest. Hopefully, we can stay on them, because in testing they were performing well.
“The drivers were happy with them, and they were consistent, that’s the main thing. We want to get to the point where brakes are no issue anymore.”
Having run the Carbone Industrie system in the Bahrain test, Kevin Magnussen gave positive feedback on the new material adding: “We’ll continue with what we tried in the Bahrain test and see how it goes.
“It’s always good to try different things, and we felt that there were some positives with the CI brakes, and we’ll continue like that. And we can always go back.”
