Haas F1 Team drivers Esteban Gutiérrez and Romain Grosjean drove to hard-fought 11th – and 13th -place finishes, respectively, in the German Grand Prix Sunday at the Hockenheimring in Baden-Württemberg.

While the effort did not yield a point-paying result, it was still a strong showing from the Banbury based team as both drivers had to rally from deep within the 22-car field. Gutiérrez got bottlenecked at the start and dropped to 18th while Grosjean started the race from 20th after incurring a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change on Saturday.

Guenther Steiner (Team Principal) said: The car showed the pace and we had no mistakes, but when you start in those positions, sometimes that’s the best you can achieve. We know the pace is there. We can do it, we just have to pull it all together and get it done. We’ve showed that we can do that, which is ultimately a positive for the team moving forward.”

Twelve rounds into the 21-race Formula One schedule, Haas F1 Team remains eighth in the constructor standings with 28 points. However, seventh-place McLaren widened the gap over the Banbury based team to 14 points via Jenson Button’s eighth-place finish. Haas F1 Team’s 22-point advantage over ninth-place Renault went unchanged as neither Magnussen nor Jolyon Palmer finished in the points.

Haas F1 driver, Roman Grosjean said: “It wasn’t too bad. I think we had a good pace, but the middle stint behind the Renault saw my brakes massively overheat, and I lost them completely for a few laps. That clearly put us on the back foot. I couldn’t get by, and that cost us having a shot at points.

“We need to understand that, but generally the car behaved in the race. I’m happier this afternoon than I was yesterday. Overall, it’s been an awesome first half of the season. I want us to be able to come back and score regularly in the top-10. There are a few things we need to unlock. We’ve got the potential in the car. We just need to put it all together.”

Manor Racing, also based in Banbury, finished in 17th and 20th with Pascal Wehrlein and Rio Haryanto.

Manor Racing F1 driver, Pascal Wehrlein said: “I’m really happy. It was a very straightforward race, so there were no opportunities to improve further through the field, but we still achieved our target of finishing ahead of Sauber and we got a Renault too. So it was a good race.”

Lewis Hamilton, driving for the Brackley based Mercedes team won the German Grand Prix by 6.996 seconds over Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo. The victory extended Hamilton’s lead in the championship standings to 19 points over his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, a gain of 13 points. It was Hamilton’s 49th career Formula One victory, his sixth this season and fourth in a row. It was also his second win at the Hockenheimring, with his first coming in 2008 during his second Formula One season.

Nine races remain on the 2016 Formula One schedule, with the next event coming in three weeks with the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps.