“Since Singapore, I’ve been trying to be really cautious at the starts and it’s been all the more frustrating to be involved in an incident in Japan,” the Frenchman said. “When approaching the first corner, I was watching Sergio Perez on my left to make sure there was no contact with him. I didn’t expect such a big speed difference between Mark and I braking into the corner, we collided and that was it.”
The 26 year old described his error as a stupid mistake and has apologised to Webber personally after the race. The Lotus driver, who was not allowed to race at Monza one month ago for causing a heavy crash at the start of the race in Belgium earlier on, stresses that he is continuing to make an extra effort to avoid such collisions early on in races.
“I’ve sat down and looked at things again with the team,” he adds. “For sure it’s still an area we need to improve. We’re clearly focusing on this area for the next races,” Grosjean said.
