Disastrous afternoon for Romain Grosjean

“Our afternoon was disastrous. » Romain Grosjean did not mince his words yesterday after the first day of driving on the Hermanos Rodriguez track in Mexico City. The Frenchman, who managed to bring back Haas F1 Team in the points last weekend in Austin, had a more complicated start to the weekend yesterday in Mexico.

Author of the eleventh fastest time in EL1, the former Lotus driver was quickly forced to dismount in EL2, victim of an electronic problem on his car VF16. “This session did not correspond to what we expected, specifies Team Principal Günther Steiner.

Roman had an entry problem with electronic control unit et had to stop. We had to change the majority of electronic equipment, ce who left Roman with only last 30 minutes of the session. So, we were not able to complete everything what we had to do. »

Romain Grosjean, for his part, was rather pessimistic for the rest of his weekend, and in particular the race. « C 'is ours to work around this, continues the Frenchman. When we have problems like these Friday, this tends to cost us expensive on Sunday. Certainly, we still have Saturday, but we must make the most of the day to look of everything that we had to face today. »