Grosjean celebrates!

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It's a very happy 31st birthday today to Haas F1 driver Romain Grosjean He was born on April 17 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland, although he chooses to compete under the French flag.

Grosjean had an illustrious road to Formula 1, winning titles in Formula 3 Euro Series, GP2 Asia, AutoGP and of course sealing a dominating championship victory in GP2 in 2011 which gained him a Grand Prix race seat with Lotus F1.

In 105 races since then, he's finished on the podium on 10 occasions. This picture is from his most recent, when he clinched third place in the 2015 Belgian Grand Prix.

The race had been won by Lewis Hamilton, with his Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg second. Grosjean benefited from a late right-rear tyre blow-out for Sebastian Vettel on the Kemmel Straight. It was Grosjean's (and Lotus') first podium since the 2013 US Grand Prix.

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.