{"id":170956,"date":"2025-09-26T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170956\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:17:10","slug":"grosjean-on-haas-f1-test-they-made-me-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170956\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean on Haas F1 test: &#8220;They made me cry!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years on from his Formula 1 career-ending Bahrain Grand Prix accident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/romain-grosjean\/829275\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Romain Grosjean<\/a> made an emotional return to F1 in a Mugello test.<\/p>\n<p>A Haas driver from 2016 to 2020 before he moved on to IndyCar, Grosjean got the chance to drive the team\u2019s VF-23 car from the 2023 campaign alongside F1 TV pundit and former IndyCar racer James Hinchcliffe, who got his first taste of F1 for an upcoming feature on the championship\u2019s official broadcast channel.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>Little information has emerged about the test day, which took place alongside Pirelli development running, other than the occurrence of rain; regardless, Grosjean was ecstatic following his experience \u2013 and the emotion of an ovation in the pitlane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wet day, but as we say, it was a rainy wedding, a rainy happy wedding,\u201d the 39-year-old said. \u201cSo it was a rainy day, happy day, fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust felt a bit rusty at first, and then everything came back. I even got to do a standing start, and guess what, my last standing start was Bahrain 2020. So this time it turned out way better.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/romain-grosjean-haas-f1-team.jpg\" alt=\"Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Haas F1 Team<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery grateful, very unique opportunity getting to see some of the people that were in Australia 2016 and get to drive the new generation of cars. It was fantastic and, again, I&#8217;m very, very grateful. There&#8217;s just no other words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team principal Ayao Komatsu, who followed Grosjean from Lotus to Haas as a race engineer for 2016, and heritage chief engineer Dominic Haines, who was Grosjean\u2019s race engineer from 2019-2020, were in attendance among many friendly faces for the Geneva native.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey made me cry at the end of the day!\u201d Grosjean exclaimed. \u201cI kept my visor down, but for my last in-lap, everyone from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/ferrari\/36466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ferrari<\/a>, Red Bull, Pirelli and of course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/haas-f1-team\/36726\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Haas F1 team<\/a> was here, clapping and giving me like an ovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s something I was expecting in Abu Dhabi 2020 [for his planned F1 farewell], but I think it was even better today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758903430_618_romain-grosjean-haas-f1-team.jpg\" alt=\"Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Haas F1 Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years on from his Formula 1 career-ending Bahrain Grand Prix accident, Romain Grosjean made an emotional return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,87867,3017,86482,82],"class_list":["post-170956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-grosjean-on-haas-f1-test-they-made-me-cry","tag-haas-f1-team","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}