Grosjean splits with sportscar team
Romain Grosjean has left the Matech Competition team and will be replaced at the Nurburgring World GT1 round by Nicolas Prost
The former grand prix driver joined the Swiss sportscar outfit at the start of this year after losing his place in the Renault F1 team.
Alongside team-mate Thomas Mutsch in a Ford GT, he won two of the first three World GT1 races of the year at Abu Dhabi and Brno. He also contested the Le Mans 24 Hours with the team.
But Grosjean has parted company with Matech since the Spa 24 Hours three weeks ago.
His future programme is unclear, though he returned to GP2 at Hockenheim last month with DAMS - whose regular driver Ho-Pin Tung is now recovering from the back injury he sustained in Hungary and is yet to confirm his return for Spa next weekend.
Grosjean has also raced twice for DAMS in Auto GP this year, winning at Spa in June and Magny-Cours in July.
Prost will join Neel Jani in Matech's Ford at the Nurburgring next weekend, extending their collaboration from the Le Mans Series, where they already share a Rebellion Racing LMP1 Lola.
"I'm really pleased that Nicolas is joining the team, which is now revitalised for the 2nd half of the season," said Matech team manager Martin Bartek. "We had a recent test and he was instantly on the pace with our other drivers.
"We now have one of the strongest driver line-ups in the championship, and from our points position I'm confident of successes. With our home race only a couple of days away, it's a good feeling."
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