Romain grosjean

Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu: Romain Grosjean will get back behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car for the first time since his fiery crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix when he tests Haas’s 2023-spec VF-23 at Mugello on Friday.

The Frenchman’s last F1 appearance came in Bahrain nearly five years ago, where he miraculously escaped a terrible crash that left him with serious burns on both hands. That race was his 179th and final Grand Prix, before he switched to IndyCar in the United States, where he secured six podiums and three pole positions over four seasons.

Now, invited by his former team Haas, Grosjean will reunite with Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu, who was also his race engineer at Lotus, for a Testing of Previous Car (TPC) session at the Tuscan circuit.