Romain Grosjean blasts “absolute idiot” teammate Alexander Rossi amid Andretti meltdown
Grosjean and Rossi made contact, knocking t💜hem both off course, and resulting in an argument oveꩲr the team radio.
Team owner Michael Andretti was then seen in a heatꦍed debate 🌞with Rossi’s father.
Grosjean fumed on the team radio about Rossi: “What the hell is wrong wi🐽th him?”
Grosjean was then 🍸asked by his꧂ team to hold up traffic to help Rossi - but he refused.
“Because Rossi put me in the wall, so I am not goin﷽g to protect him,” he argued.
Grosjean al🌜so made contact with fellow Andretti driver Colton Herta. Rossi bumped teammate Dওevlin DeFrancesco.
Grosje𒐪an said afterwards: “I must apologise 🍰to Colton.
“I had a lot more grip than everyon🍎e else so I just🌳 braked. I didn’t realise Colton would brake so early. So I tried to avoid contact.
“That wasn’t good from my side, but I think that’s goiꦺng to be i♈t as far as today, it’s just that Rossi is an absolute idiot out there.
“I don’t know why he does that.
“He’s on black (tires), I’m on reds. I’m on the 🅰outside, and I carry more speed through the corner. He did it once on the restart. OK, maybe he slipped on cold tires.
“Do it again the next lap, then he did it on purp♉ose. My hand is hurting. We lost the blo✨ody race.”
Rossi said: “Just a racing incident.
“He 🌳was on a softer tire and probably going to get around me, but he likes to do it fast and early. I had to test him there and obviously that’s unfortunate to tap into a teammate, but that’s the way it goes.”
An Andretti stat🎃ement said: “A round of incidents amongst teammates cost valuable track positions. The melee🌸 brought about high tensions and lowered finishing results.”
Michael Andretti called a furious team 🌌meeting afterwards.
“It wasn’t pleasant, but it was good that he did it,” Grosjean💖 said. “I understand he’s frustrated and not happy with us.”
Grosjean and Rossi ar𓆏e F1 veterans while Michael Andretti is link✤ed with entering a team into F1.
James was a spo𒈔rts journalisꦑt at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
