{"id":16837,"date":"2012-10-13T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16837"},"modified":"2012-10-13T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:22:42","slug":"steward-warns-grosjean-to-avoid-multiple-race-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/steward-warns-grosjean-to-avoid-multiple-race-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Steward warns Grosjean to avoid multiple race bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A formula one steward serving at this weekend&#8217;s Korean grand prix has warned Romain Grosjean not to crash at the first corner on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-stewards\/Paul-Gutjhar.jpg\" alt=\"Paul-Gutjhar\" width=\"307\" height=\"205\" \/>Frenchman Grosjean was banned at Monza for causing the first-lap carnage at Spa, and incurred a ten-second stop and go penalty &#8211; and the wrath of the F1 paddock &#8211; for yet another incident at Suzuka a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss steward Paul Gutjahr, a F1 steward since 1995, told Blick newspaper in Korea: &#8220;The Frenchman is warned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another crash, and he will be a spectator on more than another occasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grosjean has admitted that Lotus is &#8220;not happy&#8221; with him after his latest crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team told me they are not happy,&#8221; he told RMC Sport in Korea.\u00a0 &#8220;I am not happy with the situation either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 550 employees working (with Lotus) so I am aware of the situation and now it&#8217;s up to me to find a solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that Mark Webber, who called him a &#8220;nutcase&#8221; at Suzuka, came to see him after the Japanese grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not read his statements, but he came to see me after the race in my room,&#8221; said Grosjean.\u00a0 &#8220;He was annoyed but that&#8217;s normal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I apologised and it&#8217;s all I can do.\u00a0 I have not read any press or anything, but I know that when I get out of this situation, I will be stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A formula one steward serving at this weekend&#8217;s Korean grand prix has warned Romain Grosjean not to crash at the first corner on Sunday. Frenchman Grosjean was banned at Monza for causing the first-lap carnage at Spa, and incurred a ten-second stop and go penalty &#8211; and the wrath of the F1 paddock &#8211; for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5300,5340,1282,306,295,4056],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16838,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions\/16838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}