Paris (AFP)

French driver Romain Grosjean, who competed in his last season in Formula 1 in 2020, will comment on the Monaco Grand Prix on Canal + on Saturday and Sunday, the television channel announced to AFP on Tuesday.

"For the first time (...) the former Formula 1 driver will offer his analyzes live from Saturday for qualifying and for the race on Sunday", scheduled for both days from 3:00 pm, says Canal +.

"It's going to be great," anticipates Grosjean, 35, who raced in F1 in 2009 and then between 2012 and 2020 with Renault, Lotus and Haas.

"I'm lucky to have driven these cars until very recently, to know the codes and therefore to be able to talk about all this when necessary. It's quite natural."

As for the spectacle on the track, "either we are going to experience an exciting race, or a very long race, it is Monaco!", Reminds AFP the Franco-Swiss.

He left the premier class of motorsport in an impressive crash at the Bahrain GP last November, stepping out of his burning car with his hands partially burnt on his own.

Canceled in 2020 because of the health crisis, the legendary Monaco GP will be held from Thursday to Sunday in front of 7,500 spectators per day.

We should witness, as in the first four rounds of the 2021 season, a close fight between the Mercedes of Briton Lewis Hamilton and the Red Bull of Dutchman Max Verstappen, first and second in the championship with a difference of fourteen points.

"In 2019, it was already tight between Lewis (winner, editor's note) and Max (2nd on the finish line but demoted to 4th place because of a penalty, editor's note), Grosjean points out. time."

Still active, the French driver is now racing in the United States, in IndyCar, and signed his first pole position and his first podium (2nd) at the Indianapolis GP last weekend, for his third race only in this championship. .

In addition to all the races (Formula 1, Formula 2, Porsche Supercup and Formula Alpine) live, a unique 90-minute documentary - "Monaco, the Grand Prix at any price" - devoted to the preparation of the event in the context of the Covid-19 crisis will also be broadcast on Saturday at 9:00 p.m.

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