Haas Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen says his impressive Austrian Grand Prix qualifying performance was t🐠otally unജexpected on a “rollercoaster day of emotions”.

Magnussen had already faced a set-back to his weekend when Haas discovered a problem with his gearbox during final practice, resulting in a race against time to fix the issue ahead of qualifying with the team down on members due to injuries and illness within the A🐷merican squad’s camp.

H꧙aas had not expected to be particularly competitive in Austria but Magnussen turned in the surprise perfoඣrmance of qualifying to set the fifth fastest time, just a second shy of polesitter Charles Leclerc.

“It just ♐came together on that final run and the grip was there,” Magnussen explained. “We added a lot of front-end and I was not expecting that it would work.

“I did have a bit of understeer at high-speed but the t🌼eam have just been really on it - not only on set-up and giving me the right things I needed in the car, but also the guys in the garage changing the gearbox between FP3 and qualifying was a really good job.

“I drove past the television and I saw it was🌞 P5 and I got pretty excited,” he added. "It was just such a rollercoaster day of emotions between losing the gearbox and getting that penalty and then not expecting much going intoꦍ qualifying.

“But then on that last run just nail🥀ing it and putting it P5 was just such a rel🎃ease of emotions.”

However, Magnussen will start sunday’s race from 10th on the grid after being hit with a five-place penalty for the geꦬarbox change

“You’ve just got to accept it and do the best job you can🎀,” he said.

“Still you have something to fight for because you have those fiv𝐆e positions but the better you qualify the better you start. Disappointing not🎃 being able to start fifth but nonetheless just happy with that performance.

“We start P10 on the wrong tyre with no str🐠aight-line speed but what the hell, other than that it’s all good.

“This weekend has been pretty disappointing with the penalty and al♉so not looking great in terms of pace, so it was just a big surprise and such a big relief to pull that one off, so emotions were pretty high for everyone in the team.”