His Indycar Stint was almost a reflection of his F1 years. You could see glimpses of pure pace in a slower cars and then he started to bottle it every race

I wish Grosjean had stayed with Dale Coyne Racing. His results were good and he was getting more out of the car than I think most people expected. In addition, he had an opportunity to build a team around himself as a team leader. Not so at Andretti. Sometimes, the grass isn't always greener. Some of his troubles were simply bad luck, but not all.

Grosjean has long admitted to mental health issues stemming from earlier crashes. Somehow the fireball actually seemed to help him resolve some issues. But I think he has The Fear as we used to call it. The unforced errors, the frequent dives to the safety road to avoid contact, the wrecks. He's a lovely guy. Fast racer. But he honestly needs out of single seaters. But talking about mental health in racing is forbidden so let's all just call him a wuss apparently.

I was at barber this year his driving was incredible. If his team didn't choose the wrong pit strategy he would have gotten first instead of just second

Romain Grosjean. The wayward, accident-prone speed of Andrea De Cesaris and the troubled desperation of Jean-Pierre Jarier, all rolled into one driver.

It is crazy how it took a nearly fatal crash for people to actually see the nice guy side Grosjean always had throughout his career

Will, are you sure the title should not be: 'How Grosjean's Career Went Up In Flames...' ?

It has definitely been painful as a Grosjean fan. Some of his issues have definitely been mistakes of his own. But in the last half of the season, it’s largely been bad luck and bad strategy. The same thing has been happening to Herta. I hope he stays on the grid.

Romain has always been fast. Super fast. Just inconsistent. It’s a shame. He has so much talent.

And I thought Grosjean had already been roasted enough in 2020…

Detroit wasn't a unforced error , It was a suspension failure, you can see it, also when it came to indy, grosjean was 18th due to engine failure on the very last lap which wasn't caught on the broadcast, it was after a very great fight up the field after he got caught in an incident with Scott Dixon

Grosjean is the perfect example of what a champion ISN'T. All the raw speed, feel and natural talent to be a winner, with none of the mental strength and grit seen in every multiple world champion

he was winning at one point but down to bad strategy ended up 11th in Laguna

Marshal Pruitt been sitting on a story about Grosjean and Andretti. I don’t have much going on in my life. So I’m looking forward to it

I say this as an eternal fan of the underdog, I've genuinely always been a fan of Romain and this season was such a rollercoaster. He could and should've been so much better, a driver who is infinitely better than his own results. He should've won a Grand Prix but it was never to be. I really hope he finds a seat next year.😅

Romain has had an a rough second half to the season for sure but I think Colton has also looked dreadful and incident prone (especially with the pit limiter). The only person at Andretti that can win is Brian Herta.

I still root for him! He's a great dude and fun to watch and I hope he's back on track in indy next year.

6:25 "Grosjean remembered he was racing on an oval" His car was destabilized by the shunt from Herta's unsafe release. That crash happened just a few laps after that stop.

In F1, every error he made he always blamed it on everything except on himself. So he kept making the same error over and over.. He had the talent, just not the character to become a winner.

He has a contract with Lamborghini for next year to race their new hypercar. I know that open wheel fans sort of sneer at endurance racing, but it has its fans too, and it's better than nothing anyway.

It is such a shame, Grosjean's 2013 F1 season was sooo good and yet he never lived up to that again

He seems like a nice guy. By which I mean he's finishing last a whole lot this season.

just forgot to mention that he has a seat in iron lynx for the 2024 hypercar season at WEC and maybe IMSA

I’m just concerned that Sting Ray has a ride next year , just as Will does. Think of all the lost material if he doesn’t. 😂

In all honesty, every time that Romain had a chance, it just seemed like the pressure was just too great, and he just plunged into errors, not major crashes, but just a light tap with enough energy to break the car. Romain is a really good driver in Indycar, but after all of the near wins, you can see that the frustration really got to him. It really is sad.

I had high hopes for the Frenchman when he first got here. It was awesome watching him in person make passes in his first ever oval race at Gateway in 2021.

I think Romain does deserve to stay in Indycar, on his day he is extremely fast, he just needs somewhere where there is no pressure, there's far too much of that at the big 3, they can be rather quick to chop of any wood that is even slightly dead. He would be great for Dale Coyne again, and they'd be great for him.

He is a destroyer of expensive cars

Grosjean is definitely an enigma. Sato is, being charitable, prone to the occasional stupid incident, yet somehow he's all the more endearing for it in a way that Romain just isn't. Something of the Jean Alesi about him. You get the sense a win would unlock a world of potential, but he just doesn't seem able to get out of his own head.

Two things. Detroit was a suspension failure BEFORE he hit the wall. Indy GP 2 he got stuck after that pile up in turn 4. Ruined his race. Everything else I’m with you on I do think Andretti need to take some responsibility for how Romains time with them has gone. They’ve let him down about as many times as Romain’s binned it on his own. Also he’s more than a match for the golden boys, Herta and Kirkwood. Give him back the results from St Pete and Detroit (again, not his fault) and he’s right there with them in the standings Fingers crossed he goes back to DCR. Perfect environment for him to reset and chase that elusive win in 2024

I knew he’s shown he can win races in IndyCar, but couldn’t close the deal :( I feel like he was better in the #51. Awful that Grosjean and Andretti don’t see each other eye-to-eye nowadays

That Grosjean crash still gives me chills

He had some amazing moments at Lotus and some good moments with Andretti. I’ve actually met him and he’s such a nice person to his fans. I hope he finds a seat somewhere and can continue racing.

He'll be on the IndyCar grid next season, everyone cool your jets. He's a talented veteran that still has a few years left in him, and he's proven that this season (even if it was only in the first half). Andretti should be looked at as a problem more than people seem to say, after all they only got 2 wins this season and fell off massively as a whole after the first one. They squandered great result after great result for Grosjean, Kirkwood, and especially Herta. I believe this will simply turn out to be a pairing that was never meant to work while Grosjean goes on to recover just fine.

Romain deserves a spot in Indy, that is in the grand stands knitting

Wish him all the best, Hopefully he returns to fighting form in another sit. Will like to see him in the Lamborghini LMDh next year.

He had an error-laden run with Andretti but Andretti managed to torpedo the year for every one of the drivers on the team, so perhaps a return to a team not quite so unable to handle the various disconnected directions it's determined to follow is the ticket.

I'm amazed he made it to Indy. I know it seems horrible to say, but Grosjean's fireball accident was the best thing that happened for his career at the time because he had little fans in F1 due to his accident prone nature. All of the media attention after his crash practically got him the Indy drive.

Hopefully he can bring it home for the 51 team next year

Hopefully Romain can get some good results in WEC next year.

Scottie Mac passing him at Barber broke him. He immediately stopped his social media, his youtube, and started to get really frustrated with the team. That pass at Barber was RoGro's last straw. To continue - They both entered the league together. He was BETTER then Scott in their rookie year. That pass. The way he blew all of the P2P within 2 laps of being passed. That was it.

I'd like to see him back at DCR next year, even if only for a few races. I used to live fairly close to their shop, and I was friendly with a few of the guys there. They all had nothing but good things to say about working with Grosjean, even if they didn't always feel like they had the car to match his speed. It's a small team with a small budget. I know that a lot of DCR's personnel have been poached since then, and that 2021 might have been the limit as far as their performance was concerned, but it really seems like they worked well together.

New to your channel and definitely appreciate your subtle snark.

Andretti press: There was a problem with the car Andretti engineers: Yeah the problem exists between seat and steering wheel

To be honest, recently, Andretti Autosport is where promising careers go to die.

For whatever it's worth, any cat that still has the chutzpah to get back in a seat after Bahrain is a winner of sorts in my book.

I feel this is a little over-critical on Grosjean, when in fact you need to look at Andretti Autosport team as a whole this season. They've been off the pace for the vast majority of the season, epecially on ovals. Also look at Romain's team mates, Herta is 10th and Kirkwood 11th in the driver's standings, with Romain 13th. Andretti needed to look at themselves before their drivers, but in typical American fashion, the employee gets the blame rather than the management who run the operation.

sting ray robb has hit the wall more than the amount of races he has started

I still remember that 2013 Japan Grosjean, what could have been

Certainly one should keep in mind that driving in the indy grid is much harder than f1. There are far more cars racing reducing space making it so much easier to have pile up after pile up. The most important in my opinion would be the difference in driving standards, indy really needs to work on that.

Consistency is one of the top priorities in motor racing. If a driver starts to attack the walls or the scenery on a regular basis is a bad career move. It's a pity, he's bought a light plane, that may become a hangar queen. Thanks for a great video I look forward to more.

Grosjean: I think Ericsson hit us Ericsson: yeah boi hit yo career 😂

There was a fight that went down within his team that involved Romain that will be explained more indept soon but that was a big reason that he was not re-signed and also a big part of it was that Romain lost DHL the team's biggest sponsor. He did not perform and no team wants to keep a pain in the ass driver that also isn't bringing good results.

Man, I was so happy to see him come to America and race, he did look like he was going to be a consistent front runner in the beginning. Maybe there's a chance he stays and he can sort himself out. He is fast, just needs to keep his eye on the ball a litter better. I am rooting for him.

Amazed that Ericsson has done a better job in Indycar than Grosjean

This is the way he drives. How many cars did he destroy in F1? Regardless of how fast you can be.....you can't be destroying cars every other race.

Well he's now a works Lamborghini driver so it's not all bad

Have fun with Indy today, this is gonna be the most EPIC comedy review

Im sure hes just happy to be alive

Looking at the last race at Laguna Seca he really showed he can send it. But all in all, that's not enough. There'll be always the Dixons and Palous, who'll both be able to send it from time to time but also can take the car reliably to the finish line and the podium as well.

I read under the Bahrain video that “it took him almost dying for people to love him”. But Will won’t let him be😂

Truthfully the guy has no luck on his side. I mean really the only luck i saw go his whole way this season was him getting into the pits before a yellow with Pato at Leguna today and put him to the top on the restart. Lots of bad breaks all season. Some forced errors, some strategical errors by the team. Hopefully DCR picks him up

Right Europeans talk trash about oval racing but most of them a scared or worried about racing around them. There’s definitely more to it than driving in circles.

Oh Boy DX Music! Brings back memories. Gotta replay

the only thing he's famous for is surviving a crash . .can't say i've seen him win any car race

Cool vid. Nice presentation style. I watched his 2020 crash on a live telecast. It really was a ‘where we you when’ moment for F1 fans. So what’s his current status as a driver ?

4:40. its 10 to 4am and everywhere is quieter than the proverbial church mouse. so, having just taken a sip of very expensive coffee you made your comment "actually, never mind that." for some strange unknown reason i found this extremely funny, which resulted in me spitting out my expensive coffee all over my laptop screen (there wasnt a lot of coffee to be fair). so thank you for making me laugh so hard i think i might have woken my next door neighbour!

Well I dont really care about his Indy Career. I want to see him getting good results in WEC with Lamborghini and hopefully being as competetive as Ferrari in their first Season.

6:17 “The Romain-ing rounds of the season . . . “ Nice.

Can't wait for Pruett to release details on the breakdown in the relationship with Andretti.

Thanks for your channel. Brilliant commentary - superb sense of humour! Love it :) On the reality of Grosjean - how on earth can he be wanted by any team with his track record! Clearly some people have more money than sense.

His career in Indy perfectly resembles his career in f1. Great start in the beginning but continued unforced errors and crashes lead him out the door

If team Andretti had managed a proper race strategy like Chip Ganassi did Romain would have finished certainly with a chance of a podium. Instead they pitted him just after he took the lead and after every other team had topped off on fuel. They crucified his race. Michael Andretti doesn’t manage his drivers very well at all. I mean when did Herta last win a race?

That Grosjean crash still gives me chills. And I thought Grosjean had already been roasted enough in 2020….

I thought I was hearing things at first with the Deus Ex music in the background, nice.

As an American who exclusively watches F1, I hope Romain is able to keep driving in Indy car. Solely so I can say, “Good for him.” on the off chance he gets a race win… just like I got to say for Erikson a couple years ago.

Yep, agreed, the wheels for Romain finally fell off at Road America, my thought too.

I haven't heard much nois about how Bahrain crash was caused by the same bullshit he pulled the whole season, suddenly changing the "lanes" right in front of other cars.

Tbh I like your foray into Indy alongside F1. I don't follow it but it's nice to see these updates and who knows, maybe I'll get into it.

indy car fans acting surprised when the inconsistantly fast guy famed for crashing every 2 races is insconsistant and starts crashing every 2 races:

Having never watched Indy, can't really comment on his career there, so this vid was informative there. But as an avid F1 fan, I've watched his entire career there, where in his first career, he was fast but dangerous and in his 2nd career, he was still fast but lacked that consistency. He joined the Haas team hoping to use that as a stepping stone into Ferrari, due to their connections but similarly he never really had the luck when the Haas actually looked competitive and as the years ticked by, the car just got worse. So overall, he was never my favourite driver but his obvious speed meant i wished he got a chance higher up the grid but his bad luck combined with lack of consistency/concentration meant he was always overlooked. The biggest surprise for me, was learning his replacement, though in fairness younger driver, of Ericsson, as his career in F1 was short, backed mainly by investment, as he was slow, often beaten by his teammates and u would easily have rated Romain over him, atleast in his younger F1 days.

Was that the Deus ex Unatco music in the background at the start?

I fucking loved him at Lotus. Mad driver and very fast when he managed to navigate the field.

Nice compilation, humorous, could use a little more context in some of the "quick take" race summaries. After his crash years with Lotus, why Haas picked him is a mystery. When Haas was surprisingly good, early on, didn't he crash during a Safety car while leading? And fumbled a couple other opportunities. So when he started successfully in Indy Cars, it was a pleasant surprise and a great story. Not sure how everything deteriorated so quickly in '23, after a competitive start. Definitely some glaring driver error type of lapses, though. So now he's suing Andretti? Becoming unemployable. Good luck Lamborghini team getting him to discipline his driving.

If you can take the heat in the barrier you can take the heat in a one make open wheeler series in Murica.

Sting Ray Robb is the craziest name I’ve ever heard 😂

Marshall Pruett says Stingray has a suitcase full of money so he'll end up somewhere.

"I think Ericsson hit me" ghehehe

Thought this video was about why his F1 career disintegrated and was surprising it started with his last race. Even when he wiped out the front rows of the grid or after "I think Ericsson hit us" he kept his seat, so I was actually interested what was the straw that broke the camel's back. Instead, I learned some IndyCar stuff. ;)

Props for the deus ex music in the intro.

big fan of the channel THANX

I had high hopes for him.... He's wicked fast when he has a good car, but once he looses his cool, he either overdrives the car or makes stupid, overaggressive decisions. Yes, many of his failures this past year have been on the shoulders of other drivers, his car, or poor strategy on the part of his team, but he has a knack for making those situations worse with his temper. I hope he can stay in the series, I hope he can find a better situation with his team or another, and I hope he can grow to meet that awesome potential he has. We shall see.

Hey Will, remember Monza 2015? Well we now have Laguna seca 2023. Jezus what a mess.

Well I wanted RGJ to come to Indycar so we would see that F1 drivers are not quite the pinnacle people think. I also bore a grudge with Haas and Gunther Steiner for trashing American driver talent, while Haas was being promoted as an "American" team blah, blah, blah. At that time American driver Rossi needed a F1 seat and I felt talent wise he was on par with Grosjean. Then he comes to Indycar wins the 500, and several Indycar races etc... Then Romain comes to Indycar and I think now we get a nice match up in the same equipment and had my biases confirmed. Better yet then they drove for the same team wow this should do it. Well somewhere along the way I became a Romain fan, I really like the guy and think he is much faster than I had given him credit for. I always felt he was accident prone especially under pressure and that seems to be confirmed. Rossi has won races and been as high as high as 2cnd and 3rd in the championship. He has always finished higher than Romain so I should be happy right. No actually, Romain is clearly fast enough to win races on pure pace. Grosjean was taken out several times being no fault of his own when he was poised to win in St Petersburg and maybe in St Louis. This season Romains lack of emotional self control and dealing with his crew ruined what should have seen him much much higher in the standings. I hope he gets another shot at Coyne or somewhere and finishes his career on a high note. I also know he and Rossi were not on good terms and now have hung out together and are maybe friends on some level. That is cool honestly. Indycar is a bit better with the Frenchmen in it than not, if he can get a grip and be calm under pressure look out. I know old dogs new tricks right.

A race car driver that can't handle the slightest amount of pressure or he's gonna bin it. I loved his driving out of the gate for Lotus...and kept being a fan and kept making excuses until I finally had to admit that this guy just didn't have it. My turning point was him careening deliberately into Rahal last year. It's a shame - there was some legitimate speed there. But without mental discipline that speed becomes moot. He will never win a top tier series race. Retire and spend time with your family, man.

Not sure why Dale Coyne would need Grosjean, unless he brings money. I really enjoyed following Roman in the F1 aftermath and finding enjoyment in racing via Indycar, but it turns out he just doesn't seem that impressive as a driver.

Racing can be an unforgiving, brutal sport. He’s only a few months removed from being a favorite for the Indycar title to struggling to find a ride. Brutal, brutal, sport.

According to people in F1, he's a great test driver. Haas got better with him in that role. Race weekends however, he's Jay Cutler. Flashes of brilliance, with mostly dismal results.

I find the personalities of IRL kinda annoying-they are in very similar cars and they are all aggressive but get so upset, throw tantrums and then hold grudges making threats like some Busch league. Will Power one race is like I don’t care what people do,I just love being out here and next race freaking out-like a high school drama scene-Romain is at least interesting in his follies-he has big temper but isn’t usually threatening to use his car as a weapon against anyone-granted he kinda does it anyway but still

Grosjean seems to go into a mental quicksand after a bad a bad race. Hopefully he scores a win before the end of the season and move on maybe back to a smaller team where there will be less pressure.