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Chief Lotus engineer to follow Grosjean to Haas
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Lotus chief race engineer Ayao Komatsu is set to follow Romain Grosjean to the new Haas F1 Team. Komatsu has been at Lotus since 2006 and was Grosjean's race engineer from the start of the Frenchman's second spell with the team in 2012. Together the pair scored nine podium finishes until Komatsu was promoted to the role of chief race engineer at the start of this season. With Grosjean joining Haas in 2016 he has asked Komatsu to join him at the new team, which has been working hard to recruit experience F1 personnel ahead of its debut next year. F1i understands Komatsu is set to agree to the move, although it is not yet clear if Komatsu will join as chief race...
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