In his rookie season, Romain Grosjean was made to feel very welcome in IndyCar by everyone, it seemed –the public, rival drivers, the media, team owners. Equally, he and his family have been captivated by America and bought a house in Miami.
Yet you still get the impression that the real reason Grosjean is staying in IndyCar is to experience that winning feeling again. He arrived at the Lotus Formula 1 team with as impressive a CV as it’s possible to accrue in junior formulas, went on to score 10 podiums over the next four years despite never having the best car, and then felt his talent being wasted in increasingly uncompetitive machinery at Haas.
It’s little wonder the IndyCar rookie didn’t make a huge deal about losing a potential first win on the Indy road course last May to questionable blue-flag rules: the important thing was that he had fought for the win and been able to prove he still had ‘it’. Two more very hard-earned podiums later in the season confirmed…
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