After the accident of the former Haas driver at the Bahrain Grand Prix last year, Grosjean was supposed to do two outings in a Mercedes W10 car, as offered by team boss Toto Wolff.
Grosjean was originally scheduled to hold a demo of the 2019 Mercedes car at the French Grand Prix from June 25-27, but that excursion had to be canceled after the Paul Ricard race weekend was brought forward to that weekend, meaning the event will feature Grosjeans collides with IndyCar obligations at Road America.
The Frenchman was supposed to travel to Le Castellet to do a private test with the Mercedes on June 29th.
However, this test has been postponed due to France’s current COVID-19 countermeasures that require Grosjean to be quarantined after traveling to France from the United States.
On Wednesday, Mercedes announced on social media that Grosjean’s Mercedes test “has been postponed due to travel restrictions and quarantine requirements”.
The team added that it would be looking for a new test date later this year to give Grosjean a worthy end to his F1 career, stating, “We are determined to give Romain his chance in a Mercedes F1 car and are working on postponing the test later “. this summer.”
Grosjean, who took his first pole and podium finish in IndyCar last month, said the idea of holding one final F1 test came while he was in hospital recovering from the burns he suffered in Sakhir’s fiery accident.
“Well it was all Toto,” Grosjean said on the F1 podcast Beyond the Grid. “You know, when I was lying in my hospital bed in Bahrain, someone helped me open the things on my cell phone because I had no fingers.
“And then friends said to me, ‘Oh, Toto says you could take a test in a Mercedes if you can’t make it back to Abu Dhabi.’ And I think, oh okay, that’s super cool.
“Of course I liked it very much back then. But I wanted to go back to Abu Dhabi until it wouldn’t happen again. And then I went home, recovered a bit and then got a call at some point.” from Mercedes. “
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He added: “It’s an incredible opportunity. Only for a few things. I’m still a Formula One fan. I still watch the races. I’ve driven it, but now I get to drive the 2019 world championship car , that “in the end it is not far from the 2020, which was probably the fastest Formula 1 car ever built.
“And I drive it without pressure, without having a test day to do a few test things and go through a program and so on. Yes, we can have a program, but it’s more [like] let’s go and have fun. “
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