Steiner blasts Grosjean's Baku mistake

Haas team principal Gunther Steiner has described Romain Grosjean's Baku crash behind the safety car as "not even worthy of a rookie". The team were on for another result but yet again they threw it away in the race as Grosjean crashed behind the safety car all by himself.

Grosjean has fought criticism all week after his race engineer blamed Marcus Ericsson, saying the Swede had hit him however replays showed this wasn't the case.

"I was warming up my tyres and bumped into a switch that I’d moved by two positions, the brake balance was locked rearward – it just locked the rear wheels and I spun." Grosjean said.

Steiner was less than impressed with the mistake which cost the team vital points in a tightly fought season.

“You don’t expect (that) from a rookie or anybody,” he told Racer.com this week.

"In the race we saw we started last and were P8 with Romain behind Perez. That was on speed (not luck), because everybody had made one stop.