Romain Grosjean has apologised for making comments calling into question the Haas F1 Team’s long-term commitment to remaining in the sport.
In the build-up to Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, Grosjean was asked about his chances of staying with the team beyond the end of the current season.
He replied by talking about “the elephant in the room”, which he said was the question of whether Haas itself would still be in F1 in 2021.
That caused consternation within the Haas camp where the matter of the team’s long term future is unsurprisingly a highly sensitive issue.
- Steiner unhappy with Grosjean ‘elephant in the room’ narrative
Team principal Guenther Steiner made his displeasure with the Frenchman’s comments clear over the weekend, stating that Grosjean’s answer “was the wrong answer” in the circumstances.
And now Grosjean has apologised for his original remarks and walked back his original comments about the team’s prospects.
“I’m sorry if I said anything wrong,” he told Motorsport.com after the race. “I said something that I shouldn’t have said.
“I didn’t want to create anything,” he added. “You know I’m sorry for the team. And all good.”
He added that the internal drama surrounding his original comments wasn’t going to end up as one of the centre pieces in the next series of Netflix’s Drive to Survive behind-the-scenes documentary series.
“There’s no Netflix episodes, there is no problem,” he insisted.
For his part, Steiner said he had been amazed when he had first heard about Grosjean’s “elephant in the room” comments but added that he had never actually been angry about them.
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