Grosjean: It sounds like I’m an assh*le in the car but I am not

Romain Grosjean admits he can be a handful to deal with when he gets fired up in the cockpit of his Haas, but insists that his team accept his outbursts for what they are with no malice intended.

Grosjean told F1i, “I’ve got the tendency to be too pushy and too passionate, but that’s what the guys love.”

“It sounds like I’m an assh*le in the car but in the end I’m a nice guy, or I think I’m a nice guy, and everyone knows it, and they know that if I’m pushing it’s because I’m pushing myself, and I want to push everyone the same way.”

“When I crashed the car in qualifying at Singapore I came back and said very sorry it’s going to be a long night and they said we don’t care, we know you are out there doing 120 per cent and that’s what we want to see.”

“There’s nothing personal when I say the car is bad and so on. It’s to put words on the feeling, which is not so easy to do. It’s like when you try something and it’s disgusting and you are: I hate it, it’s bad but it’s not against the thing or the cook, it’s just not your taste, but you need to put a word on the feeling.”

“I’m passionate, I’m not a Finn that is very calm, I’m more a Latin guy. I live for my passion.”

“I’ve tried to back off, because it’s playing on the TV and so on, and people who don’t know me, they think it’s wrong. I can tell you I’m passionate,” admitted the 30 year old Frenchman.