Romain Grosjean miraculously survived his fireball crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix last weekend but that could be his final piece of action as an F1 driver. The 34-year-old has been released by Haas and is without a seat for the 2021 campaign.
Grosjean escaped from the horror collision with the barrier with just burns to his hands and feet.
His recovery is going well and there are hopes he may return for the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi.
However, if the French-Swiss star does not make it back in time then Wolff has offered him a test drive in Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes.
Grosjean has never come close to winning a world title but he could get to step into a seven-time champion’s cockpit.
Grosjean had pleaded for one final opportunity if he does not get the chance to race for Haas.
“The story would be beautiful to go to Abu Dhabi,” he said.
“If I don’t, I’ll call every single Formula 1 team and see if anyone would offer me a private test in January or so to jump back in the car and have 10, 15 laps for myself.”
After coming through the terrifying order relatively unscathed, Grosjean said: “If we can learn anything from that incident in terms of the safety but also in the way I behaved in the car the survival instant – I never panicked, I was never stressed, everything I did was mathematical.
“Even after removing the glove because I know my hands were burned, every step was just rational.
“I don’t know if you are born with that instinct or it is something that you can improve through your life but obviously that saved me. Let’s see how much we can learn from that.
“Being a racing driver is a great thing.
“People say what you do is is extraordinary; and I say, ‘No, doctors that save lives are extraordinary, firemen are extraordinary.’
“If I can, as Jules did for me, save life in the future by [my] experience, I will have a very strong legacy in motorsport and probably my biggest pride.”
Hamilton said of Grosjean’s incident: “I’m just so grateful that the halo worked… it could have been so much worse.
“But I think it’s a reminder to us and hopefully to the people that are watching that this is a dangerous sport and that is why we’re out there pushing to the limit and playing with that limit, but you also have to respect it.”
