Kevin Magnussen was♒ disqualified from the United States Grand Prix because the Haas Formula 1 squad took “too much risk” with its fuel usage, says team boss Gunth🐻er Steiner.

Magnussen was excluded from the Austin results for exceeding the 105kg fuel limit by just 170 grams, after finishing sandwiched between the Force India duo of Esteban O🍒con and Sergio Perez in ninth place.

Steiner has since admitted Haas knew it was on the limit of F1’s fu൩el regulations and was hoping the issue would have been eased if Magnussen had been lapped by race-winner Kimi Raikkonen - a scenario which did not unfold.

“We used too much fuel, to say the obvious,” Steiner explai☂ned to media ahead of this weekend’s Mexican Grand Pri🍸x.

“We tried to attack Ocon and it di𝓰dn’t work out. Even if we had passed him we could had save afterwards more but we k𒆙ept on attacking.

“We just ran too much risk, it was our own fault. We took too much risk and it went this way. But there is a point where you need to attack, you cannot always just sit behind and see what is happeningꦐ.

“We did it and lost out on it, we take the responꦦsibility and move on and try to do better here. There is a regret but there’s no re꧂gret on what we actually did.”

Steiner admitted that “with hindsight” conceding a position to Perez and allowing Magnussen to conserve more fuel while still finishing inside the points would have been a better option, though he attached no b🤡lame to his driver.

“He did what he needed to do, it wasn’t down to him because he cannot see the numbers - it’s just ‘lift and coast, lift a🔥nd coast’, the numbers we see how much he has to do,” he added.

“The driver, you cann☂ot blame him he didn’t do enough, because then when he gets overtaken it would be ‘why didn’t you pus🐻h a little bit more’. It’s one of those things. The number we see, not him, so I don’t blame him for it.”

Haas is looking to overtake Renault in the tight battle over fourth place in the constructors’ championship and Steiner conceded the intensity of the 🍨midfield scrap probably played its part in the error.

“I think that’s the reasonꦇ we did this - if we would be safe in fourth or impossible t𒊎o catch fourth, why would we take this risk?

“So that is why racing is what it is. Racing should be racing, in my opinion. We run hard because we wanted to ac🦩hieve something. We ran out.”