Haas F1 driver Romain Grosjean qualified eighth for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix Sunday at Circuit de Monaco.
The Frenchman overcame an early spin at Mirabeau (turn five) where he kept his Haas VF-17 off the wall and out of the way of oncoming traffic. He went on to nab the 12th quickest time with a lap of 1:13.786 to advance to Q2.
In the second session Grosjean secured the sixth fastest time with a lap of 1:13.203, setting him up to run in Q3 for the third time this season.
Grosjean went on to earn his second-best qualifying effort of the year with his quick lap of 1:13.349 placing him eighth overall, one spot better than his most recent Q3 appearance in Bahrain and only two positions below his season-best qualifying effort of sixth in the opening round in Australia.
“It was a pretty good qualifying session,” he said. “The car was quite unpredictable, but that was the tires. They went from working to not working, front and rear. The car was changing every lap.”
“I was struggling with that as I like to have a car balance I understand, but eventually in Q1 I managed to get a decent enough lap in and pulled through. In Q2, I had a really good lap, the tires worked, then in Q3 not quite so good with the rear tires. Anyway, we're here in the top-10 and that's what we wanted. It's a great place to start the race.”
