Romain Grosjean will be back in a Formula One car on Friday – five years on from his fiery crash in Bahrain .

The French driver, 39, miraculously survived a 67G fireball crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, escaping after 28 seconds in an inferno with only burns to his hands after the halo device on the Haas car saved his life.

Grosjean did not race again in F1 and has, in the five years since, taken part in IndyCar and endurance racing.

But on Friday, Grosjean will return to the Haas F1 team to participate in a test event at the Mugello Circuit in Italy, as part of the team’s TPC (Testing of Previous Cars) programme.

Members of Grosjean’s backroom team in F1, including current Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu, will be present on-site at the 15-turn Italian circuit. Grosjean wi

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