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Grosjean on the skids!

It's that time of year when Twitter and Instagram are alive with the photos and selfies of Formula 1 luminaries enjoying their winter holidays. Here's Haas driver Romain Grosjean enjoying himself against a spectacular backdrop near Geneva, where he was born and lives with his wife Marion and their two children.

With no more time in a Formula 1 car until February, he's keeping himself race fit by exchanging Pirelli tyres for Rossignol skies. He's promised to film some of his downhill runs using a new GoPro camera, so watch out for that in the next few days.

Grosjean also took time out this week to pay homage to France's biggest rock star, Johnny Hallyday, who died on Tuesday aged 74. Grosjean tweeted: "Un monument qui s'en va, mais la légende est éternelle."

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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.