Listen to this article Kevin Magnussen qualified eighth in Barcelona less than a tenth behind Valtteri Bottas, whose Alfa Romeo team had brought a whole slew of upgrades to the Spanish round. Teammate Mick Schumacher also made the Q3 shootout – for the first time in his career – qualifying 10th behind Magnussen and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo. Afterwards, Bottas expressed his confusion on how quick Haas was at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as one of the few teams without updates. “I think without the upgrades we would have not been seventh today,” he said. “The only thing that is confusing is that Haas haven’t had any updates, and they’re still like… sometimes there, so I don’t quite get it!” When Motorsport.com requested Steiner to help the Finn out by revealing Haas’ pace mystery, he explained that the decision not to bring upgrades to a well-known track like Barcelona actually helped the team further understand the baseline it has, which will then allow it to add the right upgrades to it in subsequent races. He suggested that with upgrades his team might have even been slower than without. “There’s many people out there with upgrades and it’s almost a critique that we didn’t. Can you imagine if …