Grooming Grosjean for Renault

When Romain Grosjean isn't at his day job in a Swiss bank, the Frenchman is being prepared as a possible future Renault driver. But he's got this year's GP2 title to win first...

We're only four races into the new season and already a few drivers are beginning to feel the heat. Nelson Piquet, Sebastian Bourdais and Kazuki Nakajima, all in their second seasons, are under pressure from very strong team-mates.

The man with the toughest job is undoubtedly Piquet, whose reputation takes a battering from Fernando Alonso every weekend. Inevitably there are suggestions that he won't survive the season – which brings up the question of who might replace him.

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