Overview
- RaceFans reported Grosjean completed an installation lap on Friday morning at Mugello in Haas’s 2023 VF-23.
- He reunited with key former Haas crew, with team boss Ayao Komatsu serving as race engineer and Dominic Haines and Ian Staniforth on site.
- He is using the helmet his children designed for what would have been his 2020 Abu Dhabi farewell.
- F1TV presenter and ex-IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe is also scheduled to drive the VF-23 for a broadcast feature.
- The session is enabled by Haas’s new TPC effort developed with Toyota Gazoo Racing, and Ferrari’s Frederic Vasseur was seen attending.