Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has apologised for how he represented McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown’s comments about Oscar Piastri at the Spanish Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grosjean was commentating qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix on French TV channel Canal+ when he reflected on comments from Brown on Piastri that Grosjean said left him “speechless”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That referred to an interview on F1TV’s post-qualifying show between Brown and F1TV’s four presenters – Laura Winter, Grosjean himself and fellow ex-F1 drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Jolyon Palmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked by Winter for his reaction to Norris taking pole, Brown told them “the whole lap was amazing and Lando’s just getting better and better and better.<\/p>\n
“When you see a lap like that put down, you just go, \u2018he’s a world champion’.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Montoya asked what Piastri, seventh in qualifying while Norris was fastest, needs to take a step up in qualifying, Brown replied: “I think a) you got Lando on his A-plus game, right? So I don’t think there was anything left laptime-wise there. So he found that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Oscar’s been right there with him all weekend and just didn’t get that same extra lap. We’ll continue to look at it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He’ll look at the data and probably do what we all did and go, ‘wow, what a lap’ as well.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Sunday, while commentating on the grand prix for Canal+, Grosjean described Brown as taking a chainsaw to Piastri’s performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He claimed that when asked about the difference in Norris and Piastri’s performances, Brown had said Norris is a world champion and better than Piastri.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grosjean’s comments quickly gained traction on social media on Sunday, becoming one of the trending topics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then on Sunday night, Grosjean took to social media to apologise and clarify his comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Today, I made a comment on Canal+ regarding Zak Brown’s comments about Oscar Piastri during an interview yesterday on F1TV, which I was part of,” Grosjean wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I completely misunderstood his words and want to apologise for that. I know how important it is to Zak and the entire McLaren team to respect their drivers and treat them fairly and equally.<\/p>\n
“McLaren had the fastest car today and were unlucky with the VSC.<\/p>\n
“I’m sure both Lando and Oscar will have another chance to fight for the win in Baku.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has apologised for how he represented McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown’s comments about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-895067","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895067","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=895067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}