Haas makes up for a tough Austrian GP with some great jabs at Elon Musk and Twitter
It was a troublesome Austrian Grand Prix for Haas F1 Crew, a minimum of on the observe.
However their social media workforce made probably the most of it on Twitter.
Regardless of beginning inside the highest ten, Nico Hülkenberg didn’t end on Sunday, when his VF-23 suffered a failure and he was pressured to retire. Teammate Kevin Magnussen fared little higher, spending his day in the back of the sphere earlier than ending nineteenth.
But whereas the drivers had been struggling on the observe, their social media workforce was thriving off it. Haas’s media workforce leaned into the weekend that was on Twitter, tying latest modifications instituted by Elon Musk and the social media firm to the quite a few “observe limits exceeded” penalties that had been handed down by race officers in the course of the Austrian Grand Prix.
It started with this reference:
Loads of penalties for price restrict exceeded, no sorry TRACK restrict exceeded.
Kev’s stayed out of bother on that depend to this point #HaasF1 #AustrianGP
— MoneyGram Haas F1 Crew (@HaasF1Team) July 2, 2023
Magnussen, sadly, would finally be hit with a five-second penalty of his personal. That prompted the announcement from the workforce, that includes a mockup of what Twitter customers had been seeing all through the weekend:
After all, they added this fast reply:
Hopefully a few of you had sufficient tweets left at the moment to see this…
— MoneyGram Haas F1 Crew (@HaasF1Team) July 2, 2023
Haas was not the one F1 workforce tweeting via issues on Sunday. Mercedes joined within the enjoyable as Lewis Hamilton was certainly one of a handful of drivers who obtained a penalty for exceeding observe limits in the course of the Grand Prix:
Alpine made mild of the variety of drivers who had been hit with penalties as nicely:
Return to Haas, whereas the tweets might need been the only vivid spot for the workforce on Sunday, not all was misplaced for them over the weekend. Hülkenberg managed to complete in P6 within the F1 Dash race on Saturday, scoring three hard-earned factors for the workforce.
These three factors had been sufficient to push Haas forward of Alfa Romeo within the Constructors’ Championship, as Guenther Steiner and firm now sit seventh within the standings.
Too unhealthy factors should not awarded for getting off some good tweets on the timeline.
