page_title: Romain Grosjean
section_title: 2016
hierarchical_section_title: Romain Grosjean / Racing career / Return to Formula One / Haas (2016–present) / 2016
caption_attribution_description: English: Formula One 2016 Rd.16 Malaysian GP: Romain Grosjean (Haas F1 Team)
context_page_description: Romain Grosjean is a French-Swiss racing driver currently competing in Formula One with the Haas F1 Team, racing under the French flag.
  He dominated the 2005 French Formula Renault championship at his first attempt and joined the Renault young driver programme. He was the 2007 Formula 3 Euro Series drivers' champion. In 2008 he became the inaugural GP2 Asia Series champion and came 4th in his first year in GP2. In 2009 he made his Formula One debut for Renault at the European Grand Prix and came 4th again in GP2 despite missing the final eight races.
  After being dropped by Renault he returned to junior formulae, winning the 2010 Auto GP championship at the first attempt and winning the 2011 GP2 Asia Series and GP2 Series becoming the first – and as of 2018, only – two-time GP2 Asia champion and the only driver to hold both the GP2 Asia series and main GP2 series titles simultaneously. Due to the Asia and Main GP2 series being combined, it is likely that this will remain true for the foreseeable future.
  In 2012, Grosjean returned to Formula One with the Lotus F1 Team, alongside Kimi Räikkönen.
context_section_description: On 29 September 2015, it was announced that Grosjean would race for the Haas F1 Team, who were joining the Formula One grid for the 2016 season. He was partnered by former Sauber driver and Ferrari test driver Esteban Gutiérrez. In the team's first race, the Australian Grand Prix, Grosjean finished sixth to record Haas' first points and making them the first team since Toyota Racing to score points in their debut. He was eventually voted Formula One's first Driver of the Day. Grosjean scored again in the following Bahrain Grand Prix by finishing in fifth position, winning Driver of the Day again.
  Following Jenson Button's retirement from full-time racing, the members of the GPDA elected Grosjean to replace Button as one of the directors of the GPDA in May 2017.
caption: Grosjean at the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix.
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