Hülkenberg: “Grosjean must do a lot of work on himself”
Collateral victim of the starting pile-up, the Renault driver is not lenient with its perpetrator, namely Romain Grosjean.
The French driver of the Haas F1 Team is in the eye of the storm at the start of this season. Two weeks after his hard-to-explain crash under the Safety Car, Romain Grosjean repeated the mishap at the beginning of the European season. Tenth on the starting grid, the driver from Geneva lost control of his Haas at the third corner, during the long right-hand curve. In the slipstream of his teammate Kevin Magnussen, the driver with car number 8 spun into the run-off area, before coming back to the middle of the track with his foot on the accelerator. This sequence was fatal to the ambitions of Pierre Gasly and Nico Hülkenberg, who couldn’t avoid the wayward American car. Race outcome: one crash and three retirements!
Romain spun out before coming back in the middle of the track. I couldn’t avoid the cars in front of me, illustrates the Renault driver. It was chaos! The car came very fast, there was nothing else to do.
A situation not enviable according to the German from Renault, expelled despite himself from this Spanish Grand Prix. Still heated from the incident, Nico Hülkenberg did not hesitate to show his discontent, with a certain irony. Rivals in GP2, the two drivers do not appreciate each other much.
« He is very skilled at spinning out and taking other drivers with him. He needs to do a lot of work on himself. I don’t know how many times he’s spun out over a race weekend. He is really unpredictable! »
Such remarks unfortunately bring back memories of 2012. At the time, Romain Grosjean had already been noticed by Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber for causing multiple accidents in the first lap. The Australian from Red Bull even nicknamed him the “first-lap nutcase.” The Haas driver will now have to make a comeback after five races without points. A feat in the Principality would be welcome…
The most dramatic moment of the race 😬
Three cars eliminated after just three corners at the #SpanishGP 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/x9WlKHJLlY
— Formula 1 (@F1) 13 mai 2018
