the shooting programs at American universities through a friend and started contacting coaches there. He chose the University of Kentucky after a visit and spent four years shooting for the Wildcats, earning All-Amer

AUSTIN, Texas -- Gene Haas heard the snickers, shook off the doubters and ignored the suggestion that he didnt know what he was doing.Looking up at his name in bold letters above the Haas F1 team tent in the paddock this week at the U.S. Grand Prix, its easy to allow him a few moments of self-congratulation heading into his teams home race this weekend.Everybody made it sound like we were clueless getting into Formula One, that wed be bumbling idiots. The Europeans were going to teach us a lesson, Haas said. I think when we showed up and were prepared with a competitive car that scored points, it set a very high bar ... People didnt think we could do it.The Formula One season has been dominated by Mercedes and the duel between teammates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. But the American rookie outfit has been one of the surprise stories from the rest of the grid.An industrialist with roots in NASCAR and North Carolina, Haas jumped into Formula One with a flourish. His team has 28 points in its maiden season, all of them scored by veteran French driver Romain Grosjean. While far from the top, its also well above the bottom with a chance to climb over the final four races of the season.Sundays race will be a chance for Haas F1 to wave the flag in front of American fans, too, during F1s only U.S. stop.There is some pride for having and American flag on this car, Grosjean said.Haas F1 is the first American-led team on the grid in 30 years and the road getting here wasnt easy. It actually crosses two continents, as the team is split between a design base in North Carolina and racing operations in England.Haas was first granted his F1 team license in April 2014. The initial goal was to be racing in 2015. That proved to be too ambitious, so Haas and team principal Guenther Steiner took aim at 2016. Powered by a Ferrari engine, Haas debuted with an impressive first testing session, then took a step back with engine problems that kept them off the track.A lot of people lost sleep over that. That was not easy having to sit off the track and watching the other teams go round and round, said Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez.We broke a lot of stuff, Haas said.The problems were fixed by the first race when Grosjean finished sixth in Australia and took two more top-10 finishes over the next three races. The success proved hard to maintain and Haas has only one other top 10 finish all season, none since the British Grand Prix in July.Haas F1 got a boost two weeks ago when both cars qualified in the top 10 for the first time in Japan. But that came with a rookie mistake: teams that make stage three of qualifying have to start the race on their qualifying tires, forcing a change in pit strategy from one stop to two, and they finished out of the points.Still, the qualifying performance raised hopes for more points over the final four races.We finished seven times in 11th, Steiner said. Its about time we finish four times 10th.Grosjean left the former Lotus team to join the Americans, and Haas credits him with being a steady hand in the car all season.He didnt know what we had and we could have been a complete and utter disaster, Haas said. He took a big risk.Haas wont commit to a driver lineup for 2017. Gutierrez was a test driver for Ferrari when he signed with Haas, but he hasnt scored a point this season, finishing 11th five times. Haas understands American fans want an American driver but suggested thats not an option anytime soon.Some fans had hoped Haas would sign Alexander Rossi, who finished 2015 driving for Manor. Rossi instead landed in IndyCar and stunned nearly everyone by winning the Indianapolis 500 in May as a rookie. Haas does have an American development driver, 18-year-old Santino Ferruci.That sounds like simple equation: American team, American driver, American race track. Its all American. The reality is theres not that many American (Formula One) drivers, Haas said. Not exactly a good idea at this time. We really wanted experienced drivers.We dont need to have everything perfect this year or the year after, Haas said. American drivers or American sponsors, those events will happen. It will be up to us to put it together.Schuhe Bestellen Schweiz . 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He squeaked through by 0.5 and had four near-perfect 10.8 shots in the finals. He had just one shot below 10, a 9.9 on his 14th shot. South Koreas Kim Jonghyun gained ground late in the final, but Junghaenel hit 10.7 and 10.4 with his final two shots.Kim won the silver medal and Russians Kirill Grigoryan took the bronze.At the beginning, I was really nervous and I was happy I could make the shots work pretty well, Junghaenel said. They were really deep and the shakiness went away.Junghaenel went into the finals with confidence from two events: Winning the Rio test event in April and Barbara Engleders gold the dday before.dddddddddddd.Engleder won Germanys first shooting gold in womens 3-position rifle on Thursday, taking some of the pressure off Junghaenel to break the shooting-medal ice for his country.It definitely helped that we were successful already, he said.Junghaenels journey to the top of the podium took him from Germany to Kentucky to Rio.He heard about the shooting programs at American universities through a friend and started contacting coaches there. He chose the University of Kentucky after a visit and spent four years shooting for the Wildcats, earning All-America honors each year.Junghaenel graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 2013 and went back to Germany to earn his masters degree, which he completed last month.In Europe, we mainly have competitions over the summer time, Junghaenel said. In the United States, you have competitions in the winter time, so it added up pretty well to gain as much competition experience as possible.Kim tied Grigoryan in the bronze-medal round and hit a perfect 10.9 to win a win shoot-off to take silver. Grigoryan hit 9.7 on his final shot to earn bronze.I didnt expect to get the silver medal, Kim said through an interpreter. I had the opportunity for bronze and I took it. ' ' '