Haas team principal Gunther Steiner has described Antonio Gionvinazzi as 'a rookie but not a rookie' given his experience already gathered in Formula 1 compared to other test drive💟rs.

Giovinazzi has secured a deal with Haas to dr🍸ive in seven FP1 sessions between British Grand Prix and the end of the season and after his opening run at Silverstone, Steiner gave the Itali🤪an driver a glowing review for his performance.

The Haas boss feels his experience both for Sauber du꧑ring pre-season testing plus the opening two races as stand-in for the injured Pascal Wehrlein and his tests for Ferrari have given Giovinazzi plenty of F1 mileage which enabled him to quickly get up to speed for Haas.

"He did a good job but Antonio has been in the car before, he has done races and a lot of tests," Steiner said. "He's a solid guy and he's fast. We have seen that la𒅌st year in GP2. He's a good guy and heജ's very professional, he's very mature.

"We didn't expect anythin🔯g strange with him as he's a rookie but he's not a rookie. I don't know how many days pre-season testing he d♕id with Sauber, he did two races for them, he drove the Ferrari quite a bit so he's solid."