“A huge challenge” - Romain Grosjean’s reaction to his ex-F1 engineer replacing Guenther Steiner at Haas
H🐭aas announced Steiner’s surprise departure on Wednesday evening.
Komatsu was previously Grosjean’s race engineer at Lotus before making the switch to the American outfit in 2016 - the𒈔 same year Grosjean joined the team.
The 47-year💛-old has played a key role at Haas as their trackside engineering director, but will know lead the team in F1 2024.
Reflܫecting on the news that his former race enginee⭕r has replaced his old team boss, Grosjean said during an IndyCar media day.
“Yeah, I saw the news as most of us. “I’m very happy for Komatsu. First of all, he's a very good friend of mine. I competed at every of my 18🐭1 Cup and Formula 1 (races) with him working on my car somehow.
“His kids are the same age as my kids, 🌺so we've been very good fr🌊iends, and I'm excited for him. It's a huge challenge in front of him, so I'm excited for him.
“I don't know what happened. I don't know more detai🅘ls than you do, but I wish Guenther all the best in his next chapter. He's definitely a man that's got a lot of ideas and things to do, but for me the main thing is very happy for Ayao.”
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