Pietro Fittipaldi, grandson of two-time F1 champion and Indy 500 winner Emerson, will drive for Haas instead of the injured Romain Grosjean at this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix.

Grosjean remains to be in hospital after sustaining burns on each palms in a scary crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The French driver is predicted to be discharged on Tuesday.

Nonetheless, he won’t be able to compete in Sunday’s race, which takes place at a special configuration of the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit, handing an F1 debut to Fittipaldi. The Brazilian driver has been affiliated to Haas since 2019, when he was named its check driver.

Haas didn’t affirm whether or not Grosjean will be capable of contest the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Dec. 13. With Grosjean set to go away Haas on the finish of the season that occasion may nicely be his ultimate F1 race.

The race will present a massively sudden alternative to Fittipaldi, who received the Method Renault championship in 2014 and Method v8 3.5 in 2017. He was set for a joint marketing campaign in IndyCar and the World Endurance Championship in 2018 earlier than he broke his leg in a crash which practising for the Six Hours of Spa.

Fittipaldi mentioned: “Most significantly I am blissful Romain is secure and wholesome. We’re all very blissful his accidents are comparatively minor after such an enormous incident.

“Clearly, it isn’t a really perfect set of circumstances to get my first alternative to compete in Method One, however I am extraordinarily grateful to Gene Haas and Guenther Steiner for his or her religion in placing me behind the wheel this weekend. I have been with the staff so much this season, each trackside and dealing on simulator classes, so I am acquainted with the staff’s working procedures on a grand prix weekend.

“It is going to be thrilling to make my first profession begin in Method 1 — I will be giving it my all and I stay up for beginning in free apply on Friday in Bahrain.”