Romain Grosjean is one of the most promising young French motor sport talents of the moment. After enjoying title-winning success at every stage of his car racing career, the Frenchman will combine a season in the GP2 Series with Formula 1 testing duties in 2008 with Renault.
He began his career in 2000 and like most it was in karts. He graduated from the Junior category to Formula ICA karts for his second season in 2001, and competed in the French championship for the next three seasons, as well as completing Formula A races in 2002.
He continued in Formula ICA in 2003, combining this with the start of his car racing career, which got off to a great start. Indeed he dominated the Swiss Formula Renault 1600 championship, taking ten wins from ten races and not surprisingly bagged the title with ease.
From there he moved up to Formula Renault 2.0 and competed in both the French and European championships - doing partial seasons in Europe and the full French series in both 2004 and 2005.
After finishing as second best rookie in the 2004 French championship, including one win and three podiums, the Frenchman won the title with ten wins the following year. He also took two podiums on his forays into the European series during this time.
From there he graduated to Formula 3, finishing 13th in the F3 Euro Series in his first season, which included two wins during the British F3 Championship rounds on home territory in Pau, France.
For 2007, he secured a position with ASM, and took an impressive title in a closely fought series, notching up 106 points as well as securing a total of six wins, six podiums and four pole positions.
Now GP2 beckons with ART Grand Prix and he plans to do that as well as acting as the official test driver for the Renault F1 team.
