{"id":17481,"date":"2012-12-28T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17481"},"modified":"2012-12-28T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:53:29","slug":"grosjean-wanted-first-win-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/grosjean-wanted-first-win-at-all-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean wanted first win ‘at all costs’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romain Grosjean thinks he is ready to take a more mature approach to formula one.<\/p>\n

\"Romain-Grosjean\"After the abortive start to his career at scandal-ridden Renault in 2009, the Frenchman got a second chance at the pinnacle of motor racing this year, with Lotus.<\/p>\n

By mid-season, he had proved his speed with three podiums, but the 26-year-old also became the subject of intense criticism for repeat mistakes, culminating in his ultra-rare race ban following the Spa-Francorchamps start crash.<\/p>\n

After a period of speculation about his seat, Grosjean has been signed for a second consecutive full season in 2013.<\/p>\n

“I had figured F1 was hard, but not that much,” he admitted to Sport24.<\/p>\n

“Gradually I realised that the difficulty of the challenge was at least a multiple of two compared to what I knew at the beginning.<\/p>\n

“For sure I have been criticised a lot, but if you had told me at the start that I would finish eighth with three podiums, I would have signed for it immediately.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I made rookie mistakes for wanting to do things too quickly — for example, I wanted to get their (Lotus’) first win at all costs.<\/p>\n

“I hope I’ve learned now and grown up although there is still work to do,” added Grosjean.<\/p>\n

“I expect a different pressure now; I cannot commit the same mistakes over and I’ll try to score points as often as possible.<\/p>\n

“I hope to demonstrate the same pace as this year but be more consistent.<\/p>\n

“In terms of the standings, I would rather not set any targets — that would be another mistake,” he concluded.<\/p>\n

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Romain Grosjean thinks he is ready to take a more mature approach to formula one. After the abortive start to his career at scandal-ridden Renault in 2009, the Frenchman got a second chance at the pinnacle of motor racing this year, with Lotus. By mid-season, he had proved his speed with three podiums, but the …<\/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":[5262,5340,306,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481"}],"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=17481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17482,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions\/17482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}