Romain Grosjean insists he was “never worried”🎶 about losing his Formula 1 seat at Haas for the 2019 campaign, despite a disappointing run of form.

A multit🉐ude of mistakes - most notably crashing out under the Safety Car in Baku and causing a first-🦋lap pile-up in Spain - and misfortune resulted in Grosjean’s worst-ever start to an F1 season.

He failed to record any points until July’s Austrian Grand Prix, where a fꩵourth-place finish sp⛄arked a turnaround in form, with the Frenchman going on to record points in Germany, Hungary, Belgium and last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.

Haas announced an unchanged driver line-up for next season ahead of last mo𓄧nth’s Russian Grand Prix, retaining the partnership of Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen for a third straight year.

“I don’t want this to sound wrong but I was never worried that I wouldn’t be here next year,” Grosj✃ean said.

“At one🔯 point after Silverstone I knew it couldn’t keep going that way but I knew I had the solution somewhere and I 🎃knew I could bounce back.

“I thou𒁏ght Germany was the point, I was good and then I knew the team would see it and we would 🥃work it through.

“If I kept g🍬oing as early on and it wouldn’t have worked but from the point I knew exactly what I needed to do then I was convinced things would go in a positive way.”

Grosjean, who has been with th♛e American squad since its debut in 2016, pinpointed this year’s German Grand Prix&nbs🗹p;as the crucial race he felt he had turned around his fortunes.

"I knew from Germany I was back on form,” he explained. "Things had to turn at one point. The season looked worse than it was👍 actually was sometimes because of bad luck.

“Bahrain I was in 𝓀the points and lost half the car, then Canada I think I was scoring points and didn't make qualifying.

"Silverstone was💯 the time when [I thought], 'OK, I need to understand things and make sure that things are going my way all the time'.

"Then Germany and Hun💜gary I knew I was back on track."