Grosjean hoping for better Sochi strategy

Romain Grosjean’s mid-season recovery has stalled recently after two races without scoring in Italy and Singapore.

The Frenchman was disqualified after finishing P6 in Italy and could only muster P15 in Singapore after strategy difficulties.

He was way off the pace in the race after qualifying in P8, and Grosjean has said that the short tyre life of the hypersoft tyre was one of the main reasons for the poor result.

"The problem in Singapore was qualifying in the top ten with the hypersoft," Grosjean said. "It didn’t last very long in the race compared to the ultrasoft and the softs.

This has led to Grosjean saying that he hopes the Sochi circuit will be kinder to the hypersofts.

He continued: "In Sochi, we’ll need to see how the hypersoft performs. It’s a really good tyre on one lap, but what’s the tyre life? We’ll need to decide if we want to go through to Q3 in qualifying, or if there’s anything we should do differently.

Despite the struggle in Singapore, Grosjean believes that his Haas is performing well.

The American squad sit just 15 points behind Renault in the race for fourth place in the Constructors’ Championship with six races remaining.

“It’s very exciting, very interesting," he said when asked about the constructors’ championship race.