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Is It Time To End Romain Grosjean's F1 Career?

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As the 2018 F1 season ebbs and flows towards its conclusion with the likelihood of Lewis Hamilton claiming a fifth World Championship to equal the great Juan Manuel Fangio, the driver lineups for 2019 are yet to be completed. From the confirmations so far there is something of a merry-go-round with exciting young drivers being given drives at top teams, namely Charles Leclerc at Ferrari and Pierre Gasly at Red Bull as a consequence of Daniel Ricciardo's switch to Renault. Leclerc's appointment at Ferrari is a notable shift from the Scuderia's policy of hiring experienced racers yet the general consensus is that signing Leclerc is not a bad decision, unless you are from Kimi Räikkonen's camp perhaps. Kimi Räikkonen is the last man to win a World Championship as a Ferrari driver, way back in 2007. Arguably he has not lived up to expectation in his second stint with the Italian team after being comfortably beaten by first Fernando Alonso and then Sebastian Vettel as team...