> After the meeting, Grosjean was permitted to speak to a small pool of reporters for just over a minute before team PR hastily pulled him away. He was then told to head straight to the team's transporters, where Andretti had called for an emergency team meeting. crossed the finish line there and brought his car to a stop in his pit box, rather than taking the customary cooldown lap. > Grosjean was ordered to take the checkered flag in pitlane, meaning he dipped into pitlane. and being a (expletive)," Edwards was heard saying of Grosjean on the radio. 29 should've been allowed to pass with ease. 29) telling the team's youngest driver not to challenge Grosjean for a spot on-track because the latter was a lap down - even though logic would say the No. > Around the same time, Andretti Autosport COO Rob Edwards was heard on DeFranesco's radio (he serves as the strategist for the No. "Rossi put me into the wall, so I'm not going to protect him," he said on the radio, to which a team member responded, "Rossi is not a lap down, remember? You are." > Two laps later, with Grosjean a lap down and his three teammates just in front or behind, the driver was ordered over the radio to block approaching traffic for the others to gain positions - a responsibility that, at least when it came to Rossi, Grosjean thoroughly denounced.
> On Lap 70, Rossi ran straight through the apex in Turn 6, running rookie Devlin DeFrancesco off-track. 26 Honda well wide and into the grass - a move the Swiss-born Frenchman took blame for after the race, saying he misjudged the move. > On Lap 64, Grosjean slid into Colton Herta on the inside in Turn 2 and pushed the No. > A couple laps later during the caution for Grosjean's stall, Rossi notably swerved into the side of Grosjean, initiating additional unnecessary contact - which he summed up post-race as "just a racing incident." 28 Honda stopped only after it slid into the tire barrier, and he had to be towed out by the AMR Safety Team and fell a lap down. The wheel-to-wheel contact knocked the steering wheel from Rossi's hands, forcing him to miss the apex and directing both cars well off-track. Though unsuccessful, with Rossi forcing him into the grass, Grosjean attempted the same move in the same spot the following lap.
> Alexander Rossi and Romain Grosjean shared contact during a Lap 57 restart in Turn 2, with the latter on the softer red tires trying to make a move around the outside. "That's the way it will be going forward." "Racing is a passionate sport, and we have four highly-competitive drivers however, we are one team at Andretti, and our drivers need to remember that we expect them to work together for the betterment of the team. Sunday's display was disappointing and unacceptable and not the way we operate - on or off the track," Andretti said in the statement. "Our race results at Mid-Ohio did not go as planned.
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