Guenther Steiner says he is “baffled” by th🐼e performance of Haas’ 2019 Formula 1 challenger, which he has desc🌜ribed as “the strangest car I have ever worked with”.

In a bid to get on top of its recent performance inconsistencies, Haas has split its car set-ups for the last two grands prix in Great Britain and Germany, with Romain Grosjean running a Me♏lbourne-spec VF-19 and Kevin Magnussen using the latest upgraded version.

Despite claiming just its second double points finish of the 2019 season during a chaotic, rain affected race at Hockenheim, Haas was left none the wiser as toܫ which car is the way𝕴 to go moving forwards.

Asked if the comp💛arison had provided any answers, Steiner replied: “We are not through on that one.

“If we wereꦦ that good to have the comparison already we would be quite a good team. This 🉐takes days to look into.

“But we did w♌ant to do it to see if we see anything different in the comparison, but it’s too early to say. We do have the data.

“If we had fully understood it we would know whaꦡt to do next,” heꦍ added. "We’re still to understand where we are with it. This is the strangest car I have ever worked with.

“You can qualify sixt🌼h, which in rea🔴lity is eighth, I know that, but we qualify fifth sometimes and then in the race you just drop off to second last. It’s amazing you know?

“There hasn’t been 🐽many times a car like this has been around. I don’t remember anything like this and therefore it is even more difficult because you ca🌠nnot even go back.

“If we are always slow… but in qualifying Kevin without the lock-up would have made it into Q3 🦹pretty easy, but then again in the race we end up being slow. I’m baffled.”

Stei💧ner added the American squad is still at a loss to explain its tyre-related performa꧋nce issues which have hampered much of its 2019 campaign.

“It’s how the car influences the tyre. But for sure I think it’s still when we get the tyre to wor♓k, we are in it, and we just neไed to understand what makes it work and what doesn’t.

“We know that the window o🍷f the tyre is small where it works, that won’t change, so we nജeed to find out why we are dropping out sometimes and sometimes not.”

He added Haas is not “100% sure” whether it will con𝓰tinue its back-to-back experiments at this weekend’s Hungarian Gran♕d Prix.