The AUTOSPORT Bulletin Board > Grosjean

noikeee

Aug 27 2009, 19:54

QUOTE (peroa @ Aug 27 2009, 09:09)

lol, Grosjean has a daily job.

He works in a bank.

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/08/26/...ve-up-bank-job/

Wtf?

I guess it's something to keep himself occupied between races, and to have an alternative career in case this racing thing goes wrong...

Buckethead

Aug 27 2009, 20:02

QUOTE (paranoik0 @ Aug 27 2009, 22:54)

I guess it's something to keep himself occupied between races, and to have an alternative career in case this racing thing goes wrong...

Better keep his day job when his driving in Flavios team. Never know what's going to happen

Yellowmc

Aug 27 2009, 20:23

QUOTE (Buckethead @ Aug 27 2009, 21:02)

Better keep his day job when his driving in Flavios team. Never know what's going to happen

Smart lad. He'll do well in life.

Juan Kerr

Aug 27 2009, 20:41

QUOTE (brabham bt50 @ Aug 24 2009, 17:25)

A ) Piquet did not have tons of miles in F1

B) Piquet is not a farce, look at the tread "Nelson Piquet seems faster now" concerning your
provocative comment on F3 SudAm 2002 and the interdiction of testing. Piquet ( and only Piquet )
was forbidden to test, while his competitors in F3 SudAm were allowed to test !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C) See the exact quote from Auto, Motor und Sport underneath, it is Fahrernoten GP Europe
Romain Grosjean: Note 5
Die drei Zehntel Rückstand auf Teamkollege Alonso im Qualifying waren aller Ehren wert, bis sich herausstellte, dass der Spanier mit einem
Bremsproblem rund sechs Zehntel pro Runde verlor. So verlor die Leistung Grosjeans etwas an Wert. Im Rennen sorgten die Startkollision und ein
Highspeed-Dreher für großen Rückstand. Da fragt man sich, warum Nelson Piquet gehen musste.

http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-...la-1386024.html

I fully agree with this comment

Piquet is gone, and to make it even harder to ever come back Romain Grosjean made him look very average indeed. The boy comes straight in and is immediately knocking on the door of Alonso's pace with absolutely no clue about F1, Piquet has been in F1 and testing in F1 for ages.

speedmaster

Aug 28 2009, 04:35

QUOTE (Juan Kerr @ Aug 27 2009, 16:41)

Piquet is gone, and to make it even harder to ever come back Romain Grosjean made him look very average indeed. The boy comes straight in and is immediately knocking on the door of Alonso's pace with absolutely no clue about F1, Piquet has been in F1 and testing in F1 for ages.

The only thing he did till now is prove that #2 Renault sucks... and knocking the door of Alonso's is quite a stretch from reality... although I agree that Piquet had far more previous experience... all in all we will be reassured that the car sucks

glorius&victorius

Aug 28 2009, 14:07

not bad

slideways

Aug 28 2009, 14:11

#2 Renault really sucked in that session.

bigginge

Aug 28 2009, 14:19

Shock of shocks, the #2 Renault is exactly the same as the #1 Renault

But then we already knew that.

Of course now they've probably been instructed by Flavio to artificially make RG look good so that NP can't get another drive.

Henrik B

Aug 28 2009, 14:42

QUOTE (bigginge @ Aug 28 2009, 16:19)

Of course now they've probably been instructed by Flavio to artificially make RG look good so that NP can't get another drive.

Scary thing is that I can't tell sarcasm from reality anymore.

bigginge

Aug 28 2009, 14:47

QUOTE (Henrik Brodin @ Aug 28 2009, 15:42)

Scary thing is that I can't tell sarcasm from reality anymore.

most definitely sarcasm my friend.

carlt

Aug 28 2009, 19:56

QUOTE (bigginge @ Aug 28 2009, 15:19)

Shock of shocks, the #2 Renault is exactly the same as the #1 Renault

But then we already knew that.

Of course now they've probably been instructed by Flavio to artificially make RG look good so that NP can't get another drive.

Nah , Flav wants to make Alonso look bad , because he will be driving for Ferrari AND Maclaren next season

[ have I been reading too many threads on this Forum ? ]

Alonzo

Aug 29 2009, 12:23

Grosjean is a Piquet generic

fanboy

Aug 29 2009, 13:12

Grosjean is showing good pace. His last lap was ruined by yellows after he set a green sector 1. He definately looks faster than Piquet.

brabham bt50

Aug 29 2009, 13:26

QUOTE (fanboy @ Aug 29 2009, 15:12)

Grosjean is showing good pace. His last lap was ruined by yellows after he set a green sector 1. He definately looks faster than Piquet.

He definitively does NOT look faster than Piquet, remember Piquet had not the same fast car as Alonso on 4 F1 weekends this year,
yet was faster than Alonso on 2 of them. Yesterday Grosjean was lighter and having the faster tyre, today in qualy he was 19th,
says it all.

BRK

Aug 29 2009, 13:32

Did he have his flying lap spoiled by the yellows? I thought he'd just scrape through to Q2 if it wasn't for that.

noikeee

Aug 29 2009, 13:34

Not a good qualy today, but give him time as he's still learning.

Seanspeed

Aug 29 2009, 13:48

QUOTE (brabham bt50 @ Aug 29 2009, 09:26)

He definitively does NOT look faster than Piquet

He really does, though. Especially being so early in his F1 career.

Anyways, his qualifying was ruined by Badoer's crash.

primer

Aug 29 2009, 13:50

Grosjean will do okay give him 3-4 races before declaring him to be as bad as Piquet. The Renault was terrible today, even FA (with his six tenth) struggled.

Mackey

Aug 29 2009, 14:01

QUOTE (brabham bt50 @ Aug 29 2009, 15:26)

He definitively does NOT look faster than Piquet, remember Piquet had not the same fast car as Alonso on 4 F1 weekends this year,
yet was faster than Alonso on 2 of them. Yesterday Grosjean was lighter and having the faster tyre, today in qualy he was 19th,
says it all.

Nelson...is that you??

Grosjean has showed in 1 race more than Piquet in 1 year and a half.

brabham bt50

Aug 30 2009, 10:53

A reminder, if Massa had not been injured and racing for Ferrari in Spa,
Grosjean would have been 20th and dead last in starting order GP Belgium 2009.

Music Man

Aug 30 2009, 11:03

Not necessary, since Massa probably wouldn't spin as Badoer did, and consequently there would be no yellow flags which would ruin Grosjeans fast lap