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Grosjean: I wasn't ready for F1 at 23
Romain Grosjean says he was not ready to race in Formula 1 when he made his debut with Renault back in 2009. Grosjean was fighting for the GP2 title when Renault promoted him to a race seat, replacing Nelson Piquet ten races into the F1 season. Joining a double World Champion in Fernando Alonso, the Frenchman had a lacklustre seven-race stint, driving a struggling car in a team whose main concern was finding a way out of the emerging Singapore scandal. Grosjean ended the season without a single point to his name but expected to be retained in 2010. "I was told: 'You have seven Grands Prix to cut your teeth and in 2010, you'll be in the car,' " Grosjean said on French TV show On...
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