Romain Grosjean is willing his stretch of bad luck to come to an end after describing it as "painful" following yet another pointless race for the Haas driver.
Grosjean is one of only two drivers yet to score a point this season along with Williams' Sergey Sirotkin, whilst his Haas team-mate Kevin Magnussen has already chalked up 27 points putting him tenth in the standings.
The Frenchman made contact with follow countryman Esteban Ocon at the start of his home race at the weekend and suffered slight damage to his car, which impacted his performance. Meanwhile the stewards handed him a five-second time penalty for that collision, although Grosjean eventually finished more than half a minute off tenth-placed Charles Leclerc.
"We pushed as hard as we could, but we had some damage on the car from the first lap, and that was difficult because it removed some aero balance," said Grosjean. "I came back as hard as I could, but we were just too far back."
Grosjean has suffered several mishaps this season including a qualifying crash on Saturday which meant he started tenth after failing to set a time in Q3. The 32-year-old is willing his bad luck to eventually come to an end, knowing Haas have a car capable of regular top ten finishes.
"The car is superfast and Kevin did a great job today, so I’m happy with that, but I want my turn to come because this stretch of bad luck is becoming a bit painful."
Magnussen meanwhile praised his own race which saw him finish sixth to take his fourth points finish in 2018.
"It was a good race and we had a good car. We got everything right," added the Dane. "It was a good race for us, and very happy to come back from the disappointment of yesterday.
"We knew we were still standing in a position of where we could probably do something good in the race, and it was our day today."
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