Romain Grosjean has declared he is starting arbitration proceedings in opposition to the Andretti IndyCar staff he has pushed for in the previous two seasons.

Andretti has still left the previous Components one racer out of its driver line-up for the 2024 time. It has slimmed its IndyCar programme down from 4 whole-time automobiles to a few. Colton Herta and Kyle Kirkwood have been retained and Marcus Ericsson has arrived, leaving Grosjean and Devlin Defrancesco devoid of seats.

Grosjean has expended the previous a few seasons racing in IndyCar considering that dropping his F1 seat with Haas at the conclude of 2020. He moved to IndyCar by signing up for Dale Coyne for a aspect-time marketing campaign, then joined Andretti previous 12 months.

For the duration of his time in the sequence Grosjean has taken a few pole positions and completed 2nd on 5 events. He was fourth in the championship standings right after the initially 5 races of 2023, but adhering to a sequence of incidents fell to thirteenth by the conclude of the time.

Grosjean mentioned in a assertion posted to his formal social media feeds now that he has enlisted a lawful company to deliver arbitration proceedings in opposition to the Andretti staff:

“I loved operating with the IndyCar staff at Andretti Autosport, and am very pleased of the successes we shared by means of two seasons. I am grateful for the quite a few friendships formulated at the greatest amount of American open up-wheel racing.

“I experienced predicted to go on racing with the wonderful individuals of Andretti Autosport in the coming yrs. I am unhappy that is not remaining fulfilled, and desire Andretti staff users perfectly. I am pursuing other choices to go on my IndyCar vocation in pursuit of excellence.

“I have commenced an arbitration continuing in Indiana in opposition to Andretti Autosport, trying to get to shield my legal rights. I am represented by John Maley and Mark Owens of Barnes &amp Thornburg, LLP.”

Andretti World wide has groups in many sequence such as IndyCar, Components E and Serious E. Before this 7 days the FIA declared it experienced acceptive an software from Andretti to enter a staff in F1.

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