Kevin Magnussen believes Haas’ potential has highlight𝓡ed both “positive and negative” aspects of its 2018 Formula 1 caဣmpaign.

The American squad has amassed 90 points so far this season and looks set to for a fifth-place finish in the constructors’ championship. It has already enjoyed its stro💫ngest season in F1 to date🌄, though opportunities to score big points have also gone begging.

Its most notable setback came at the season-opener in Australia, where a disastrous pair of botc🧜hed pit stops robbed the team🌄 of a potential 22 points.

Magnussen has recorded 55 of Haﷺas’ overall points tally this season and feels the team can learn from its mi🀅stakes this year in preparation for 2019.

“I think 55 points is good for a midfield team, but I still think there was potential for m⭕ore this year,” Magnussen said.

“That’s both a positive an🍌d a negative. Positive, because we’ve showed we have great potential in the team to do more, but of course, it’s always disappointing not to get ev🐻erything out of it as you could.

“We’re learning as a team and next year we’ll have even mo🐻re experience. We’ll have learned a lot from this year and, hopefully, we can do a bit more next year.

“As a team, we’re doing better and better. We’re learning as we go. For us, we’re such a new team, performing at such a high level already, sometimes we’re a bit short of ex꧙perience for the performance levels being achieved.

“We’re fighting big, experienced teams like Renault, McLaren, Williams and, as a n𒐪ew team, sometimes it’s hard to avoid mistakes because of 𓃲a lack of experience.

“I’d rather be in an inexperienced team ove🍰rperfor🦹ming than in an experienced team underperforming.”

Magnussen, who has scored points at half of the 20 races so far and currently occupies ninth place in the 𒆙drivers’ ♚standings, said it is difficult to pinpoint Haas’ most difficult moment of the year.

“It’s hard to point your fin🍌ger at one thing,” he expla♊ined.

“I don’t feel like it’sꦍ one issue that’s been reoccurring. I think we’ve just faced a lot of different challenges. That’s been a theme for the year.

“A lot of things that could go wrong, did go wrong. We haven’t had the margins on our side this year. A🐼 lot of things just tipped over to the wrong side to our disadvantage. Sometimes you have 𒀰seasons like that.

“Generally, tho🔥ugh, we’ve been strong all yea🔯r. We’ve just had some missed opportunities.”