However driver and team boss feel later drive-through was harsh
Sunday 28 July 2013 17:58, UK
Romain Grosjean has apologised to Jenson Button after tangling with the McLaren driver during the Hungarian GP - although expressed disappointment with the separate incident that earned him a drive-through penalty.
Grosjean's team boss Eric Boullier agreed that his driver had been harshly dealt with after the penalty meant the Frenchman dropped out of a potential second successive podium finish to sixth place. Nonethless, after showing strong form throughout the Hungarian weekend, Boullier was more than happy with his often inconsistent driver's performance and believes it bodes well for the remainder of the season. "I do feel the same actually because I feel this penalty was a little bit too much," the Lotus chief told Sky Sports F1. "He had nowhere to go so he was a little bit four wheels off the track, but just a couple of centimetres. Obviously it's very harsh when you get such a penalty to recover when you're fighting for the podium. "He had high ambition at the beginning of the race but this is the race and I was just telling him that he did a super weekend again. No foot wrong and two in a row now. "It means he understood what he built up since the beginning of the season and building up over the last year as well now. Clearly now he has the best line to build strong weekends like this and fight with guys like Kimi [Raikkonen], Alonso and Vettel. So that's pretty good."
