Romain Grosjean in Austin on October 30, 2014. -
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French driver Romain Grosjean will compete in the American Indycar Championship in 2021, he announced on Wednesday, two months after his appalling accident in Bahrain marking the end of his Formula 1 career. The 34-year-old Franco-Swiss will drive a car of Dale Coyne Racing in the American single-seater car championship, he announced on his Twitch channel.
On November 29, during the Bahrain Grand Prix, Romain Grosjean survived a spectacular accident by managing to extricate himself from his flaming F1, 28 seconds after it crashed into a barrier at 220 km / h. security and was cut in half.
"I saw death too closely," he told AFP then, both hands burned (the left more seriously), a sprained left ankle and bruises on this side of the body.
End of the adventure at Haas
With ten podiums in 179 Grands Prix over ten seasons (2009 with Renault, 2012-2015 with Lotus and 2016-2020 with Haas), Grosjean's career in F1 suddenly came to an end.
While the American team Haas had in any case announced before his accident that the Frenchman was not going to be renewed for 2021, the latter set out in search of a new challenge and will therefore land in the United States.
If we can find him from April 18 for the start of the season at the Alabama Grand Prix, Grosjean has signed a specific program and will not compete in the oval races, including the 500 miles of Indianapolis, the most prestigious event. from the Serie.
Grosjean joins the other “Frenchies” Sébastien Bourdais and Simon Pagenaud in the United States, the only French crowned in IndyCar, in 2016, and winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2019.
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