Haas driver Romain Grosjean feels that he is in a “good position” should a vacancy at Ferrari open up for 2018.
Grosjean currently races for the Ferrari-supplied Haas squad, while the Italian marque has yet to decide on its 2018 line-up, insisting its focus is on the title fight against Mercedes.
Grosjean, though, reckons he is well placed to be a contender, should Ferrari opt to look for a new recruit for next year.
“I think it’s early days and we’re not even in July,” said Grosjean when asked about his relationship with Ferrari.
“Who knows what the F1 grid is going to be like next year. Valtteri [Bottas] is of course waiting on Mercedes, then there’s the Kimi [Raikkonen] case, what is he going to do?
“Everyone thinks he’s going to be out of Formula 1 since 2010 and here we are in 2017 and he’s 38 and he’s still here doing a decent job. So I don’t know.
“If there is an opportunity, if there is a seat, I believe I’m in a good position but it doesn’t necessarily mean anything.”
Grosjean expanded on the situation for drivers, commenting: “Life is full of surprises and if you ask Valtteri what he was doing on the 15th of December I’m sure he would say "yeah, I’m going to go again with Williams" and next thing you know, you’re in a World Champion’s car.
“So it’s a phone call [away] and the best we can do is to do the best job on track.
“I’m frustrated sometimes because I love winning and that’s all that matters to me in Formula 1 and obviously you come from other categories where you’ve won everything and then you come to F1 and you don’t get the chance to win a race because it’s like you were starting the race 10 seconds behind the others. It’s done.
“But it’s great as well to see that we can start from zero – a new team – and we can build and we can surprise a lot of people.”
