Romain Grosjean blasts “absolute idiot” teammate Alexander Rossi amid Andretti meltdown
Grosjean and Rossi made contact, knocking th💖em both off course, and resulting i💫n an argument over the team radio.
Team owner Michael Andrettꦡi was then seen in a heated debate with Rossi’s father.
Grosjean fumed on the team radio about Rossi: “What ﷽the hell is wrong with h🐈im?”
Grosjꦇean 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 goingꦕ to protect 𝓰him,” he argued.
G🥃rosjean also mad𓄧e contact with fellow Andretti driver Colton Herta. Rossi bumped teammate Devlin DeFrancesco.
Grosjean said afterwards:✨ “I must apologise to Colton.
“I had a lot more grip than everyone 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 ꦑmy side, but I think that’s going to be it 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, m🐎aybe he slipped on cold tires.
“Do it again the next lap, then🅘 he did it on purpose. My hand is hurting. We lost the blo🦩ody race.”
Rossi said: “Just a racing incident.
“He was on a softer tire andꦇ probably going to get around me, bu🍌t 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 statemꦓent said: “A round of incidents amongst teammates cost valuable track positions. The melee brought about high tensions and lowered finishing results.”
Mic🉐hael Andretti ♌called a furious team meeting afterwards.
“It wasn’t pleasant, but it was good that he did it,” Gro💃sjean said๊. “I understand he’s frustrated and not happy with us.”
Grosjean and Rossi are F1 veterans while M🌳ichael Andretti is linked with enter💦ing a team into F1.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everythin𝕴g from American sports, to football, to F1.
