Romain Grosjean (born 17 April 1986) is a racing driver with French-Swiss nationality. He races under the French flag for the Haas F1 Team. He dominated the 2005 French Formula Renault championship at his first attempt. In 2009 he made his Formula One debut for Renault at the European Grand Prix. In 2012, he took his first Formula One podium at the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix, alongside Kimi Räikkönen. He became the first driver since 1994 to receive a race ban after causing a multi-car pile up at the Belgian Grand Prix in 2012.
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Romain Grosjean (born 17 April 1986) is a racing driver with French-Swiss nationality. He races under the French flag for the Haas F1 Team. He dominated the 2005 French Formula Renault championship at his first attempt. In 2008 he became the inaugural GP2 Asia Series champion and came 4th in his first year in GP2. In 2009 he made his Formula One debut for Renault at the European Grand Prix. He returned to junior formulae in 2010, winning the 2010 Auto GP championship at the first attempt and winning the 2011 GP2Asia Series and GP2 Series. In 2012, he took his first Formula One podium at the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix, alongside Kimi Räikkönen. He became the first driver since 1994 to receive a race ban after causing a multi-car pile up at the Belgian Grand Prix in 2012. In 2013 he remained with Lotus, taking six podiums, before moving to Haas in 2016, with whom he has a contract until the end of the 2020 season. On 29 November 2020, he survived a dramatic crash during the Bahrain GP when his car separated into two and caught fire after hitting a metal guardrail on the first lap. He is the great-grandson of Edgar Brandt, weapon designer and founder of Brandt. He is also the grandson of skier Fernand Gros jean, silver medalist in giant slalom at the 1950 World Ski Championship in Aspen. He has won the Formula 3 Euro Series drivers’ champion twice, in 2007 and 2008.
He stayed in the F3 Euro Series for 2007 but moved to the ASM team, for which Jamie Green, Lewis Hamilton, and Paul di Resta won the previous three titles. In a one-off appearance in the British Formula Three Championship he started on pole position for both races at Pau, won both and set fastest lap in each. He maintained a lead in the standings from that point onwards and won the title at the final round of the year with one race in hand. In the first round at the Circuit de Catalunya, he started 11th after engine problems. He rose through the field to finish fifth in the feature race, giving him fourth on the shorter grid for the shorter sprint race. He was up to second and then passed Kobayashi for the lead on a restart on a late restart. He went on to win the championship with four race victories and sixty points and sixty-one points overall. His teammates were Luca Filippi and Sakon Yamamoto, who were teammates of Sakunori Sakamoto, at the Catalon Grand Prix team ununya. He remains the only driver to hold both the GP2 Asian series and main GP2 series titles simultaneously. He drove for Lotus again alongside Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado in the 2014 and 2015 seasons before moving on to Haas for the 2016 season. He also drove for ART in the inauguralGP2 Asia season alongside Stephen Jelley.
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