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Grosjean: The car is destroyed

Romain Grosjean's season went from bad to improving to worse as he made a glaring mistake during the first free practice of the British Grand Prix weekend, crashing out at high speed during a run in the morning session and as a result was forced to miss FP2 as mechanics repaired his car. “The car is destroyed, I’m very, very sorry,” Grosjean reported over the team radio, suggesting he failed to de-activate the DRS through the ultra-fast Abbey Curve which caused the car to snap out of control at speed. The Frenchman has been accident-prone this season, but seemed to turn things around in Austria a week ago. This will be a latest in a list self-inflicted career damaging incidents that...
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