Romain Grosjean articles on F1 Fanatic archive
Pirelli swap Heidfeld for Grosjean in test “to avoid favouring any individual team” 16th September 2010, 15:29
Romain Grosjean will take over Nick Heidfeld’s role testing tyres for Pirelli. The change follows Heidfeld’s move to re-join Sauber, announced on Tuesday. Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery said the change of drivers to Grosjean was “in order to avoid favouring any individual team”:
Grosjean joins Lopez’s Gravity management 8th September 2010, 16:46
Romain Grosjean has joined Gravity Sports Management, the driver management company owned by Gerard Lopez. Lopez is on the board of Genii Capital which bought into the Renault F1 team at the end of last year. Renault are yet to confirm who will be their second driver alongside Robert Kubica in 2011. Grosjean is hoping [...]
Grosjean to make another GP2 apearance 24th August 2010, 17:16
Romain Grosjean will race in GP2 for the second time this year at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend. Grosjean, who started seven races for Renault at the end of last year, will drive for DAMS in the two GP2 races at Spa. He has already driven for the team in place of Jerome d’Ambrosio at the Hockenheimring, [...]
Who will be the new F1 drivers in 2011? 9th August 2010, 9:03
With no movement on the 2011 F1 driver market so far, it looks as though there might not be very many spaces for new drivers next year. But with a 13th team potentially being announced soon and a fresh crop of graduates from GP2 and beyond looking for a way in, we could still see [...]
Grosjean replaces d’Ambrosio in GP2 20th July 2010, 18:44
Former F1 driver Romain Grosjean will drive for DAMS in this weekend’s GP2 race at the Hockenheimring. According to the official GP2 website Grosjean will take the place of Jerome d’Ambrosio: With testing strictly controlled in this category, Gravity Sport Management has made this decision in order to analyse the reasons why the d’Ambrosio/DAMS pairing [...]
Why Grosjean deserves another F1 shot 16th July 2010, 12:41
Comparing Romain Grosjean’s performance last year to how well his successor Vitaly Petrov is doing, perhaps Grosjean was dropped too hastily.
Grosjean to race in Auto GP at Spa 22nd June 2010, 15:28
Romain Grosjean will return to single-seater racing this weekend as he will contest the Auto GP round at Spa. Formerly known as Euroseries 3000, an earlier incarnation of the championship was won by Felipe Massa in 2001, the year before he made his F1 debut. The Auto GP series uses chassis based on those used [...]
F1 drivers in the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours 8th June 2010, 17:30
The Le Mans 24 Hours has been won by 64 different F1 drivers since it was first held in 1923. Last year the winning car was piloted by three former F1 racers – Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene and David Brabham. This year 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell is among the 24 F1 drivers taking part [...]
2009 F1 driver rankings part 1: 25-16 25th November 2009, 12:00
Working out who was the best F1 driver is never easy – a driver typically only has one rival who has the same equipment, and even within teams two cars are not necessarily always the same. And it’s been even harder this year with the sudden emergence of Brawn and Red Bull as front runners, [...]
Kobayashi’s great drive and the Grosjean question (Abu Dhabi GP analysis) 2nd November 2009, 1:37
How did Kamui Kobayashi gain half-a-dozen places and get ahead of his team mate to finish sixth in his second race? And was Romain Grosjean’s race really as bad as it looked? The analysis of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will take a look at the answers to these questions.
