Driver management company Gravity Sport has confirmed that ex Renault Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean will return to GP2 as he replaces Jérôme D’Ambrosio in Germany this weekend. The Anglo-Swiss driver, in subbing for the Belgian, therefore becomes team-mate to Dutch-Chinese protégé Ho-Pin Tung at DAMS.
With both D’Ambrosio and Grosjean being members of the Gravity Academy, the former will give up his position for the latter as the series returns to Hockenheim for the first time since 2008.
‘With testing strictly controlled in this category, Gravity Sport Management has made this decision in order to analyse the reasons why the d’Ambrosio/DAMS pairing has been unable to fully unlock its potential so far this season,’ reads an official statement from the company, sent out on Tuesday evening.
Grosjean - who competed in F1 alongside Fernando Alonso following the sudden departure of Nélson Piquet Jr. halfway through last season - now returns to the feeder series in which he won four races, having raced for ART in 2008 and Barwa Addax in 2009. So far in 2010, he is placed second overall in both the FIA GT1 Championship with Matech and Auto GP with DAMS.
“I’m happy to be back on the GP2 grid again,” he said. “It’s a very hotly-contested championship in which I was aiming for the title when I was recruited for Formula 1.
“As always, I can’t wait to get out there on the track again and try to score the best possible result, and also to help the team solve the performance problems they’ve encountered this season; I think that is the biggest motivation for all three of us -Jérôme, Ho-Pin, myself - and I’m sure we can do a good job.”
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