Herta would finish as the team’s best driver in 15th, DeFrancesco 17th, Rossi 19th and Grosjean 21st. Acrimony between Grosjean and the soon-to-be-departing Rossi is no longer a concealed matter, and it has claimed Herta and DeFrancesco as collateral.īefore Calderón’s car came to a stop at turn four on lap 53, Herta was running third, Rossi and Grosjean ninth and tenth. McLaughlin what was on everyone’s minds after the race: “That’s been building all year,” in regards to the Andretti mutiny. If anything, it’s drawn more onlookers to gawk at the smouldering crater that was left behind. Michael Andretti himself chasing down Rossi via scooter before a verbal confrontation with Alexander’s father, Pieter Rossi. Grosjean calling Rossi an “absolute idiot”, before being whisked away by a team representative. O’Ward claimed pole but his car let him downAnd of course, there’s the post-race nuclear fallout. Moments later, Rossi collided with rookie team mate Devlin DeFrancesco, who had been driving the cleanest, least assuming race of the Andretti quartet, prior to the incident. Then there was Grosjean tagging Colton Herta from behind, sending Herta spinning out – after the American driver’s race was already compromised when his team didn’t bring him in to the pits before a caution flag was waved for the stranded car of Tatiana Calderón. Don’t forget about Grosjean and Rossi having a minor collision just before a subsequent safety car restart, either. There’s the initial contact between Romain Grosjean and Alexander Rossi at the tricky Keyhole corner, which preceded the much more severe clash that sent Rossi mowing through the gravel and an incensed Grosjean into the tyre barriers.
But these positive stories were eclipsed by truly awful weekends for two of the series’ top teams.Įvery Ind圜ar fan and observer has had time to observe, digest, analyse, and form an opinion on the soap opera that was Andretti Autosport’s mutinous collapse.
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