Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has confirmed the American team are back using Brembo brakes for the Spanish Grand Prix instead of Carbon Industries.

Haas continued to use CI brakes in Russia practice after a two-day test in Bahrain, but problems with overheating mean that they will revert to Brembo for the fifth round of 2017 season.

“We started off with CI brakes in Sochi,” said Steiner.

“We weren’t getting enough cooling for them, and if you don’t cool them enough, you overheat the brake itself and the pedal gets long. Also, the wear is very high.

“We looked into it to see if we could survive a race, but we realised we could not.

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