Romain Grosjean hopes to turn his torrid start to the 2018 Formula 1 season into a “positive spiral” after scoring his best qu𝕴alifying result of the year at the Austrian Grand Prix. 

The Haas driver has endured his worst start to an F1 campaign having failed to score a single point from the opening eight rounds this season, but stared in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring with a brilliant lap to set the sixꦿth-quickest time in Q3 and outpace the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo. 

Grosjean will start Sunday’s race from fifth on the grid with Sebastian Vettel set to drop three places after picking up a penalty for impeding Renault’s Carlos Sainz, and the Frenchman is determined to turnaround his fortunes by converting his qualifying performance into a strong r🦋esult. 

“It’s one day to be good and get a perfect weekend. It would be nice to relaunch a positive spiral because its been a negative since Melbourne,” Grosjean s👍aid. 

“S꧟ome have been my fault, some from just pure bad luck. This weekend everything💮 is working well and I’m looking forward to race tomorrow. 

“It’s nice to know that I’m still on it and I still know how to drive and I can 🧸produce good results and that things can go smoothly,” he told Sky. 

“It was just a bad run going on and it was really hard to stop it. But I’m glad we’ve done that and now I just want t🧜omorrow to go well so I restart on a posi꧑tive and build from there.”

When asked if he felt one positive result could ๊completely change his season, Grosjean replied: “It does tend to work that way. It’s not always the case but I know what I need and once its there൲ it starts to get better again.”

Haas team principal Gün💝ther Steiner said it was important Grosjean showed he can deliver strong performances. 

“After aꦅ streak like he had, I think it was 12 r🌠aces without points, it’s a long time for him,” Steiner explained. 

“He still hasn’t got points but to make a qua𒆙lifying like this. Its very important for him to have shown heꦯ can deliver. I think he will sleep well tonight and he deserves it.”

Steiner added he was relieved to see his team turn the promising pace of its ca൩r into a strong grid posit🎃ion. 

"It's feels pretty good. We had a wonderful day and we hope we have a wonderful day tomorrow. That's it. Nothing more to add. Keep doin☂g what we are doing and no🅘t screwing it up."

Kevin Magnussen - who will start three places behind his teammate and behind both Red Bull drivers in♒ ei🅠ghth - is unsure whether Haas will have the pace to beat Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo in the race. 

“I am not sure we are faster than them,” he said. “I think we are almost on par with them on race pace. 🌳If we can get in front then [maybe] but you need to be more than two-tenths faster to overtake so let’s see.”