Romain Grosjean, who suffered a terrifying crash in November 2020, can be again on the wheel of a System One automotive for a take a look at with Mercedes on the finish of June in France, the workforce mentioned on Wednesday.
“I’m so excited to leap again in an F1 automotive! It will likely be a particular alternative for me and to drive a World Championship-winning Mercedes can be a novel expertise,” mentioned the 35-year-old Frenchman on the Mercedes web site.
Grosjean’s Haas automotive broke in two and burst into flames after it crashed right into a barrier at 220km/h on the primary lap on the Bahrain GP. He escaped the fireball with burns to his palms, a sprained left ankle and bruising.
Instantly after the crash, Toto Wolff, the Mercedes workforce principal mentioned he wouldn’t let the accident mark the tip of Grosjean’s System One profession.
“The thought first got here when it seemed like Romain can be ending his lively profession in System One, and we didn’t need his accident to be his final second in an F1 automotive,” Wolff mentioned on Wednesday, including that he had identified Grosjean because the driver’s begin in System 3.
Drive Hamilton’s automotive
Grosjean will drive a 2019 Mercedes, the W10 mannequin wherein Lewis Hamilton gained the World championship, on June 27 in “demonstration laps” forward of the French Grand Prix on the Paul Ricard Circuit after which on June 29 in non-public testing on the identical observe.
Grosjean has already mentioned he’s switching to Indycar in america, “A final journey in entrance of my residence crowd on the gpfrancef1 in a f1 automotive, what might be higher?” he tweeted on Wednesday.
In ten seasons in System One, together with the final 5 with the American workforce Haas, Grosjean has not gained a Grand Prix.
“I’m wanting ahead to seeing him in France and welcoming him to the workforce for the weekend, though he higher be careful for my 2019 W10,” mentioned seven-time champion Hamilton.