Great to tame at least one of the Bulls: Grosjean

NEW DELHI: Romain Grosjean produced a superbly controlled drive to take second place in the United States Grand Prix from third on the grid, whilst a difficult afternoon for Heikki Kovalainen saw the Finn drop to fifteenth from his eighth place grid slot.
A lightning start from Romain saw the Frenchman leapfrog Mark Webber for second place at the first corner, with Heikki dropping to twelfth as the safety car emerged for an incident involving Adrian Sutil.Both drivers maintained position at the restart; remaining as such until the first round of pit stops.
Managing his pace and tyre degradation perfectly, Romain held off a strong charge from Mark Webber immediately following a single pit stop each, and again in the latter stages of the race.
"That was a really tough race. I had to have probably one of my best ever drives to keep Mark (Webber) behind and it's a great feeling to have tamed at least one of the Bulls in Texas as they clearly had the fastest package today. We knew a good start would be the key, so making up one place in the first corner was really important and the car was just fantastic from there onwards," Grosjean, who is the second most point scoring driver behind Sebastian Vettel in the last four races, said.
"The whole team here and back at Enstone are doing an amazing job. Every day I see them working hard together to keep us at the front and when you look at the gap to the next nearest challenger, it's clear that we're the second best team after Red Bull right now. I think this place must bring me luck; this time last year I found out my wife was pregnant and now I've equalled my best finish in Formula 1, so I can't wait to come back again and see what happens next year!" the Frenchman added.
Heikki rose as high as tenth after the opening batch of stops, only to suffer a loss of front downforce which forced the Finn to pit for a new nose having dropped two positions in quick succession. Heikki came home fifteenth at the flag.
Kimi Räikkönen's absence from the race sees him fall to fourth place in the Drivers' Championship on an unchanged 183 points; four behind Lewis Hamilton in third. Romain remains in seventh position with 132 points; trailing Nico Rosberg by 29. The team remains fourth in the Constructors' Championship on 315 points from Ferrari's 333, with third spot remaining a firm target heading into the final round in Brazil.
"My start wasn't great but then it was going okay until the first pit stop as I was racing with the pack with the car feeling quite good. After the pit stop I started to have a few problems, but it was difficult to know exactly what was going on.
"We had issues with downforce so we changed the front wing and after that it was much better, although still not as good as it's felt previously this weekend. There was a KERS issue too, though not enough to account for my lack of race pace. We'll have a good look at the data and hopefully be on top of things far better for the race in Brazil," Kovalainen said.