Grosjean turns down Stewart offer

Romain Grosjean turns down an offer of help from Jackie Stewart
Romain Grosjean (FRA) Lotus Renault
Romain Grosjean (FRA) Lotus Renault
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Romain Grosjean has turned down an offer from Sir Jackie Stewart to act 🍌as his mentor through the remainder of his first full season in F1.

Stewart had offered to help guide the Lotus driver, having suggested that the reigninꦦg GP2 champion would benefit from a mentor in order to avoid some of the scrapes he has become caught up in this season.

Grosjean however has 💧turned down the offer but said the situation might change in future.

"It's very tight at the moment and I've a honeymoon to do," he was quoted by Sky Sports. "I used to 𓆏work with a coach and I don't feel that I need one today. It can change week to week, maybe I'll feel I need some help but at the moment we are pretty happy w♒ith the way everything is going.

"You always try to get the best but then you ge🐈t to a level where you don't think you need it any more. But i🔯n three months I might say 'I want to work with somebody'. It's how you feel inside.

"To be honest, at the moment I think the peopജle around me, with Gravity, with friends I can have at the track, the management and engineers, everything goes quiꦦte well."

Grosjean added that F1 is different to other sports in that there is no need for a coach, with drivers instead able to benefit fꦺrom telemetry to help them improve their pe𒁃rformance.

"We have the data and the computer, which is good for the driving point of view," he said. "Whaꦉtever sport, they have a coach to tell them 'do more that, give more slice, go a little bit closer to the ball'...s💦tuff like that.

"We have the computer to say you b🌊rake two metres earlier than your tea

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