ZitatJackie Stewart offers Grosjean help to try and minimize on-track incidents By Peter Mills and Pablo Elizalde
Former world champion Jackie Stewart believes he can help Romain Grosjean improve his driving after his accidents this season.
The Lotus driver has enjoyed an impressive return to grand prix racing, proving to be a good match for Kimi Raikkonen and having finished on the podium twice already.
The Frenchman, however, has seen chances of strong results vanish due to on-track incidents.
Three-time champion Stewart believes Grosjean could use some mentoring in order to improve his driving.
"I just said to Romain Grosjean the other day, it would be a good idea if you came up home one day for lunch so we could have a bit of chat," Stewart told AUTOSPORT. "It is ridiculous that in Formula 1 we don't have coaches.
"In tennis there are coaches and boxing, golf, skiing... everybody has one, but we don't. I am not looking to be a coach, but I know I can help him. Racing drivers historically have not been great listeners, but I think I might be able to help."
Stewart reckons the Williams team set a good example in hiring former GP driver Alex Wurz as a driver mentor for this season, when the Grove team is using two inexperienced drivers in Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna.
"That I think is a very good thing. Maldonado is very fast but he needs help. He shouldn't have the number of collisions he has had, and neither should Grosjean. That is not all bad luck, you're in the wrong place, alongside the wrong people.
"That is a trait they can change - categorically. Having said that, I am impressed with Romain's speed, and actually I think he will win a race this year. What they have got to do is not get into trouble, and not make poor starts."
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Naaa, I saw the race... it wasn't like he was that much superior. They are all great drivers there, but it's not a race in which you can undeniably tell who's better.
Vettel hit the barrier with his back right wheel, in one of the few places where the barrier is made of cement, so he damaged the car a bit. And with Shumi it was very, very close.
I have to say I spend a half an hour thinking about 2nd driver for Lotus and... Gro is the best variant probably. Especially if they have someone to replace him midseason (would be stupid not to have such condition in contract).
I didn't go into statistics or any hard evidences, apart from points (I think). and my conclusion - he is fast. faster than Perez of Koba. with the similar rate of shitty races. the difference is not huge. It is just the situation in F1 that those 'new' boys are all a bit crash kids. They bump into each other and push their way through. Koba been in F1 for more than one season and still like this. Senna - similar situation. So there is no point really to replace one to another. and Gro is fast. Heikki - not really a variant. He seems to be on downward way (again). From 'old' guys I would probably think about Glock.
But still - Gro is the lesser of the evil, fast and brings some money. It just might be that all the possible '+' at least equals all the possible '-'
Plus - I like when Kimi has a fast partner in the team.
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t" title="hat" /> He beat Vettel and the Old Uncle! 
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