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Grosjean compares his own struggles to Novak Djokovic

Grosjean compares his own struggles to Novak Djokovic

14-08-2018 15:01
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Nicolás Quarles van Ufford

Romain Grosjean has compared his own struggles in F1 this season to Novak Djokovic, as the tennis player made a massive nose-dive but then came back to win Wimbledon recently.

Grosjean has indeed struggled massively this season, as the Frenchman has retired from too many races due to his own mistakes, causing him to trail his teammate Kevin Magnussen massively in the standings.

It took Grosjean nine races to get a points finish, which meant he was the penultimate driver to score points. The last one, Sergey Sirotkin, still hasn't done so.

"It's been tough," the Frenchman admitted to Autosport.

"I think it's just getting yourself back to where you believe you belong and what you know to do and there are various reasons in life where sometimes you are going through a tougher patch.

"Look at [Novak] Djokovic, he's number one in the world and then two years completely off and now he's won Wimbledon again, it's great to see.

"And he hasn't lost his tennis [ability], he hasn't lost his fitness, he was just different. Sometimes you are.

"I have had some bad luck, some bad moments and then some more bad luck, and it was just hard to get back."

The bad moments are starting to add up, though. It started in Baku, when he somehow lost control of his Haas behind a safety car and slammed into the wall. Not a good look. The race after, in Barcelona, he spun in the opening lap and steered into Pierre Gasly and Nico Hülkenberg.

It doesn't stop there. In Britain, he clashed with his teammate Kevin Magnussen, ruining both of their races, and a collision with fellow Frenchman Esteban Ocon at the French Grand Prix had the same outcome.

"Sometimes things don't go your way, sometimes the feeling is not what it should be.

"Sometimes you just need to put yourself back together and get back to it.

"I hope I'm back to where I know what to do and if that is the case then things are just going to come my way, as they did in Hockenheim," he concluded, referencing to his climb from P12 to an eventual P6 at the German Grand Prix.