Between the lines at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

The F1’s official FIA Press Conferences are the traditional home of ‘for sure’, ‘the team’s done an amazing job’ and ‘we’re investigating that’, but what lies behind the platitudes? F1i reckons it has the answer…

Thursday 26 November 2015 – Drivers’ Press Conference Abu Dhabi

Romain Grosjean

The Question: How much are you worried by the delay of the building of your cars?

What Romain said: Something we have experienced in the past. We have always managed to put it on track on time. As long as it’s ready for FP2 then I’m happy. We’ll try to forget that, as we’ve shown in, I think it was Suzuka and Brazil when we were a little bit late. We did manage to put the car on track and go for it. It’s just harder work for the guys who don’t deserve this – but they are going to do the maximum and then from there we try to score some good points.

What he might have meant to say: It’s a tough question. Well, let me put it this way: on Sunday night I leave the team so I would honestly have to say that in terms of overall importance in my life at this very moments it ranks slightly above the concern that I might be getting a spot on my chin but below worrying about whether or not there is a spider in my hotel bathroom. In fact, I quite fancy a weekend off, so if the guys suddenly found out that we were missing a bunch of steering wheels I would not be greatly inconvenienced. Yes, I think I can safely says je ne donne pas un singe.