Romain Grosjean is adamant he has faced tougher periods in his Formula 1 career than his current barren ru🧸n, including a crash-strewn 2012 season. 

The Haas driver is enduring a run of 13 races without recording a single point, stretching back to last year's Japanese Grand Prix. The streak has lasted the entire 2018 c🍎ampaign so far, despite the American squad boasting on💎e of the strongest packages out of the midfield teams. 

Although he is one of just two drivers on the⭕ grid yet to claim a top 10 finish this season, Grosjean insists he went through a tougher time in 2012 as he faced a barrage of 𓆏criticism from fellow drivers after being involved in a number of accidents, most notably causing a huge first-lap pile-up at in Belgium that resulted in a one-race ban.

“You don’t want to focus on it but it’s been a long stretch,” Grosjean explained. “Looking at the performance of the car we could hav❀e been doing it a lot of times but its painful. But it will come.

“To be fair it was harder in 2012. I was being criticised by other dဣrivers badly, drivers that I respect, and I was creating big safety problems.

"It's not easy right now and obviously we want more for the team but if you look at all the races, some I could have done much better but some it's just circumstances.”

Grosjean said his disappointing start to the season will not affect his approach or driving style an🏅d the Frenchman is remaining confident he will be able to unlock the potential of Haas’ 2018 challenger to turnaround his fortunes. 

“I will drive as I have always been driving,” he insisted. “The car is fast, it has been fast for a long time. If you take apart💧 Monaco where we weren’t very quick and everywhere 🃏else we have been fast. 

“I see no reason why we can’t be quick here and at Silverstone and then we have updates coming I believe for Germany and the car is a really good baseline, so if we can get the tyres to work every time and build from what we’ve got, we should be able to get some 🥃good poi꧃nts before the end of the season.”