{"id":18976,"date":"2013-08-09T07:25:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T11:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2013-08-09T07:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T11:25:24","slug":"grosjean-celebrates-summer-break-as-new-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/grosjean-celebrates-summer-break-as-new-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean celebrates summer break as new father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean is celebrating F1&#8217;s August break as a new father.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Romain-Grosjean-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Romain-Grosjean-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Lotus driver, whose wife Marion Jolles met 27-year-old Grosjean as a F1 reporter for French television TF1, confirmed the happy news this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our son Sacha was born on the 29th of July,&#8221; he said on Twitter, referring to the very day after he finished sixth in the Hungarian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>After a wave of up and down form in 2013, Grosjean also qualified a season-best third in Hungary, while many applauded his feisty racing on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to name a highlight of 2013, he said: &#8220;Well, I would like to say the pass on Felipe (Massa) in Budapest, which at the time I thought may have been the best of my career so far, but of course with the penalty I suppose it&#8217;s not the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After our performance in the last few races, I honestly believe my first win is now just around the corner,&#8221; Grosjean added.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, while earlier it was believed Grosjean&#8217;s erratic form might cost him his race seat, boss Eric Boullier thinks Lotus has &#8220;a future contender for titles&#8221; on its hands now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives me great pleasure to see him learn from those (bad) experiences and to really start delivering the kind of results we&#8217;ve always known he is capable of,&#8221; he said after Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows that if he wants to be winning races and fighting for championships then he must deliver this kind of quality drive at every grand prix,&#8221; Boullier added.<\/p>\n<p>As for his wife and his newly-born son, Frenchman Grosjean told his 165,000 Twitter followers that &#8220;All the family is doing very well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean is celebrating F1&#8217;s August break as a new father. The Lotus driver, whose wife Marion Jolles met 27-year-old Grosjean as a F1 reporter for French television TF1, confirmed the happy news this week. &#8220;Our son Sacha was born on the 29th of July,&#8221; he said on Twitter, referring to the very day after &#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":[251,5262,5340,306,4587,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976"}],"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=18976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18977,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions\/18977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}