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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says he is confident the team will announce its 2017 driver lineup following next months Italian Grand Prix.The American outfit is yet to confirm whether Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez will stay at the team next season but Steiner hopes that an announcement will be made around Monza.With Williams, McLaren and Renault among the teams yet to decide their driver lineups for next year, the likes of Jenson Button, Felipe Massa and Kevin Magnussen could be available. While other driver options could open up, Steiner insists Haas wants to avoid uncertainty and is unwilling to wait around.I dont think you want to waste this long, he said. If you know where you are its better than this uncertainty. We are very confident we can say after Monza.Last year we said the same that we would tell the drivers and we did it -- maybe a few weeks late but we didnt wait until [the winter]. Normally we do what we say, or we try to. It gives the whole team certainty and you can focus on the car and performance.Haas is set to introduce a major upgrade package at the Singapore Grand Prix -- including a new front wing, floor and rear brake ducts -- as the team looks to challenge McLaren and Toro Rosso and build upon its eighth-place in the constructors standings.Although most teams have switched their development focus onto 2017, Steiner says Haas wants to use the opportunity to improve its manufacturing process in preparation for next season to avoid being caught out.We just want to get better at manufacturing, the Italian said. We just changed our internal organisation, so these parts were developed sometime in March, April, and just went into production a little bit later, and therefore they come later.We didnt want to rush them because theres no point. We want to get better at our game as well for next year because the second year is the most difficult one for everybody. 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She is crushing her competition, men and women.The test of the night became the Wedge, the courses eighth obstacle, which took out many elite ninjas.Before my run, I honestly didnt think I could do the Wedge, Graff said via email.? Based on how pumped my forearms were after the Ring Jump and I-Beam Crossing during qualifiers, I figured that my grip would be drained by the time I got there. I just knew that, to even stand a chance at getting through the Wedge, I would have to do everything faster and more efficiently than at qualifiers.I never let my own perception of whats possible or impossible stop me from attacking the course with everything I have. By staying grounded in the reality of how difficult this challenge is, I am able to come up with the best possible strategy for success, and maintain maximum focus and alertness throughout the duration.After she got through the Wedge, however, Graff was pumped out, as the ninjas say; she had taxed her grip strength from the jerky movements of the Ring Jump, I-Beam Crossing and then the Wedge. As her grip slipped from the Helix Hang, she tried one last move to make a dismount possible, but her grip gave out.Graff has been training her grip strength through rock climbing for only a couple of years. Ive known from the beginning that it would take years to build the grip strength of an elite rock climber, Graff said. Im not there yet, but Im really proud of how far Ive come in such a short period of time.On a night with only one finisher, second place is a pretty sweet way to end the qualifying portion of the season. Graff is heading back to Vegas with an extra confidence boost knowing she can definitively beat the boys.The impact of being first or making history never really hits me until after the show airs and I start seeing how its impacted the audience, Graff said. I push my limits, and try to keep up with people who are stronger than me every day. Most of the timme, Im humbled with reminders of how much more work I have to do, and some days, I surprise myself.dddddddddddd Deep down, I think Ive always felt like I should be able to beat the boys, if I just worked hard enough and smart enough. Its an amazing feeling to see it actually happen.Los Angeles city finals specs:Finishers: 1Female finishers: 0Women moving on: 1New or modified obstacles on second half of course: 1 out of 4The course:Were into city finals episodes, where the first six obstacles remain the same as in each city of qualifying (except for a couple of tweaks). In Los Angeles, a grip was added to the I-Beam Crossing to make the obstacle just a bit easier, while the steps were loosened on The Elevator to make it a bit harder. In city finals, the course builders added four obstacles on the second portion of the course (which well review below), bringing the total number of obstacles to 10.?The first obstacle on the second part of each city finals course will be the Salmon Ladder unless theres a huge surprise. Ninjas hang from a bar and must propel jump their upward to jump the bar up the rungs and reach for the next bar.The eighth obstacle is most certainly a ninja killer. The Wedge took out many great competitors all night because of how tricky it was. Ninjas grip a bar thats placed between two Plexiglas walls and must hop it to the other side of the obstacle. One wrong move, and youre toast.We got only two looks at the Helix Hang, as only Graff and Levin reached the ninth obstacle, but its a brutal test of grip and upper-body strength. Ninjas hold on to spikes attached to a horizontal pole. Trick is, the momentum of pulling on each spike will spin them, and not all of them rotate the same way. Using only their upper body, competitors must move across these rotating spikes to the other side. Watch Graff on the Helix Hang, starting at 4:30:The Invisible Ladder returned as the 10th obstacle. This will remain the same on each city finals course. Ninjas grab rings suspended from a hole in a platform and pull. When their movement stops, the ring catches their weight so that it looks like they are pulling themselves up a ladder, through the hole at the top of the finishing platform.Looking forward:Next week, we head back to Atlanta for the second city finals course. No women qualified for the finals in that region, but ninja great Drew Drechsel will be running, which is always exciting to watch. ' ' '