THE GREAT ESCAPE
Romain Grosjean is a happy man.
He’s alive for a start. A year on from that terrifying crash in Bahrain – if the barrier splitting impact didn’t kill him, the inferno that followed could have – he’s sitting in the lobby of a plush country hotel in Cheshire looking relaxed and at peace. He’s over the accident, but that was never a problem for a mentally rock-solid racing driver, as those that live at the pinnacle have to be. Rather, his happiness is born from a number of great things that have taken place since, plus what he now has to look forward to.
The stress and grind of life as a Formula 1 back marker with Haas is an increasingly distant memory. His passion for racing has been reborn in the US, via a reviving first dip into IndyCar; and now he has a freshly minted new contract with one of the major teams, Andretti Autosport, to go back for a full season. He, his wife and three children will move to Miami to begin building their new life – and Romain, still only 35, is raring to feel the buzz of winning motor races again, perhaps even have a
