Romain Grosjean says he has resorted to laughing about his tough start to the 2018 Formula 1 season after his bad luck continued in Cana🦩dian Grand Prix qualifying. 

The Haas driver was leaving his garage as Q1 went green to signal the start of qualifying when smoke st🔥arted pouring from the back of his VF-18 F1 car.

Grosjean was forced to pull over in the pitlane as his qualifying lasted just a matter of seconds due to the reliability issue. Earlier on Saturday he had reported “strange behaviour” from his nꦆewly-upgraded Ferrari engine during the closing stages of ⭕FP3. 

Having failed to set a lap time, Grosjean will start Sunday♉’s race from 20th on the grid. 

“That’s probably up there o♍n the podium [for bad luck this year] - I’m getting t𓆉he bad luck for next season and maybe even 2021,” Grosjean told Sky Sports F1.

“It's a tough series but everyone is taking it as good as they can. We're laughing about it because at one point that'sܫ the🔥 only thing you've got to do.”

Haas has been bolstered by a revised aerodynamic package in Montreal, which Grosjean says is the only positive of a weekend in which෴ he has already suffered da❀mage to his updated front wing having collided with a groundhog in FP2. 

“The positive is the c🧜ar feels really good with the upgrade,🅺 we had a really good pace through practice. I knew I could be best of the rest today,” he explained.

Grosjean has endured his worst-ever ꦯstart to an F1 season and is one of only two drivers on the grid yet to 🤡score a point in 2018.

The Frenchman was forced into retirement after a botched pitst🤪op in Australia, before he was hampered by bodyworꦯk damage in Bahrain and finished 17th in China. 

Grosjean spun out under a Safety Car period while running eighth in Baku, before causing🌠 a multi-car collision on the opening lap of May’s Spanish Grand Prix that led to a three-place grid penalty in Monaco, where he struggle✤d to 15th. 

🌟Haas team principal Günther Steiner - who has repeatedly backed his driver to recover from his dismal start to the campaign - added: “I think we cannot get rid of being ꦏunlucky, as much as we don’t believe in it. With Romain, we were finding a good speed in the car, then we had an issue with the power unit, so that was his day done.”