Romain Grosjean has promised not to repeat the same mistakes which almost cost him his Haas drive in the first half of 2018.
Despite having one of the strongest midfield cars on the grid, it wasn’t until a fourth-place finish in Austria that the Frenchman scored his first points of the season.
Of course, he was unlucky not to score in Melbourne after the pit-stop blunder by his team but a silly crash behind the Safety Car in Baku and a dangerous spin on Lap 1 in Spain caused flashbacks to the Grosjean seen in 2012.
“I cannot make the same mistakes as I did last season,” he said. “I don’t think I would pardon myself if I had another start of the season as I had (in 2018).
“Definitely, a lot learned this year, understanding what had happened.”
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A crash with Carlos Sainz at Silverstone almost proved to be the final straw with Haas but the more consistent performances returned and were enough to warrant a fourth year with the American squad.
“I remember the week before the German Grand Prix, I called my manager and I said ‘I’m back’,” he noted. “Even before driving the car I said ‘I’m back’ and I was back.
“It was just like everything went in the right place and it was like ‘f**k, this, this, this, this and sort that out’ and I moved on.
“It was a great experience: things that you don’t even realise that can bother you.”