Jérôme D’Ambrosio, a member of the Gravity Academy, will give up his seat in the DAMS team to Romain Grosjean at Hockenheim this weekend (Germany, 23-25 July), for the 6th round of the GP2 series.
With testing strictly controlled in this category, Gravity Sport Management has made this decision in order to analyse the reasons why the d’Ambrosio/DAMS pairing has been unable to fully unlock its potential so far this season.
Romain Grosjean, who was an F1 driver last year, scored four wins in his GP2 Series career with ART Grand Prix (2008) and Barwa Addax (2009). This season, he is racing in the FIA GT1 Championship in a Ford GT prepared by the Matech Competition team, and is lying second in the drivers’ standings.
He is also racing in the AutoGP Championship with DAMS, where he is second overall despite having raced in only half the events. Jérôme D’Ambrosio, winner of the GP2 sprint race in Monaco in May, will be back with DAMS in the following round of the GP2 Series in Budapest (30 July-1 August).
Romain Grosjean: “I’m happy to be back on the GP2 Series grid again. It’s a very hotly-contested championship in which I was aiming for the title when I was recruited for Formula 1. As always, I can’t wait to get out there on the track again and try to score the best possible result, and also to help the team solve the performance problems they’ve encountered this season. I think that is the biggest motivation for all three of us -Jérôme, Ho-Pin, myself - and I’m sure we can do a good job.”
GRAVITY ACADEMY IN A FEW WORDS The Gravity Academy is a company dedicated to motor sport set up by Gravity Sport Management, a Luxembourg-based company, which started its activity in 2008. Its aim is to pick out, support and promote young drivers with the help of private investors. The Gravity Academy provides its future champions with a complete programme aimed at ensuring their all-round development whether it concerns their driving technique, their fitness training, their familiarization with the economy of motor sport, as well as their relations with the world of the media. Thanks to an on-going system of evaluation and non-stop monitoring, a tailor-made programme is created for each member
