It was like watching Romain Grosjean’s season and IndyCar career in a microcosm as Christian Rasmussen smashed into the rear of his car in Sunday’s Portland race.

Like in F1, Grosjean’s peaks put him at an elite level, but some of his lows are enough to undo a tonne of hard work for himself and his teams.

At Portland, he was running sixth, having set the fastest lap of the race the tour before, when he spun at Turn 1. He just took too much kerb on the inside, a mistake which you see often in practice but is a result-crusher in a race - and something the other drivers managed to avoid on Sunday.

MAJOR YIKES MOMENT FOR ROMAIN GROSJEAN.