Mercedes offered Grosjean the chance to test its 2019 W10 car following the French driver’s departure from F1 at the end of 2020, where the horrific accident he endured at the Bahrain Grand Prix proved to be his final race in the championship.
To allow Grosjean to sign off on a higher note, Mercedes had pencilled in a test for the now-IndyCar driver ahead of the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard, but the quarantine requirements involved travelling from the USA to France put paid to those plans.
Although Mercedes attempted to reschedule the test for the summer, Grosjean has not been able to claim his test outing owing to continued scheduling conflicts.
However, Grosjean said it was still feasible.
He said: “I sent a message to Toto after Abu Dhabi. Well, I left a couple of weeks, a few weeks going by, and then I sent a message to Toto, and he did reply. He started ‘Thank you,’ and then the last sentence was, ‘We need to get you in that car this year.’
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