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Haas boss Guenther Steiner hopes the teams improved performance in Japan can carry over to its first home race at the U. Jay Novacek Cowboys Jersey .S. Grand Prix.Despite a shaky start to Friday practice, the introduction of a new front wing saw both Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez make it through to Q3 at Suzuka. The team came away from the race empty-handed as Grosjean finished 11th but Steiner is buoyed by the improvement the team found with the new part.I think the new front wing they are very happy with that one, how it behaves, more total than overall downforce, its more like the behaviour of the car now which he likes better and he can be more aggressive, Steiner said. I think thats the main thing that we found the better balance.On Friday we struggled here, but I think I said it before and I may repeat myself we had this front wing since Malaysia but we were never able to test it properly and find a setup or balance with it, because we always had some struggles in FP1 or FP2. So if you have a little bit of struggle in one car, you need to find out about your tyres, you cannot develop a new front wing.Theres no point to have a good front wing and you dont know what your tyres are doing, so we focussed on it here, we had a little bit of a better weekend without big mechanical failures or anything, so we got it sorted and we got a bit of an understanding for this track, I hope we can carry it into Austin. But that is the main reason for Romain to be a little bit happier.The improvement came following an eventful Malaysian Grand Prix for the team, which saw Grosjean suffer a brake failure and Gutierrez lose a wheel mid-way through the race. Steiner thinks the quick turnaround underlined the strength of Haas operation.Our plate was full after Malaysia to sort out the problems we had and also try to make the car quicker and get a better set-up. I think everyone worked hard and we achieved a lot in a very short time. So, again, that shows for me how the team is getting better.After Malaysia everything went wrong which could go wrong, we had so many broken parts. The guys here arrived ready to go again. We didnt have any stupid late nights here, we had one night anti-curfew