Romain Grosjean says he has resorted to laughing about his tough start to the 2018 Formula 1 season after his bad luck continued in Canaꦍdian Grand Prix qualifying. 

The Haas driver was leavin🐼g his garage as Q1 went green to signal the start of qualifying when smoke started pouring from the back of his VF-18 F1 car.

Grosjean was forced to pull over in the pitlane as his qualifying lasted just a matter of seconds due to the reliability issue. Earlier on Saturday he had reported “strange behaviour” from his newly-upgraded Ferrari engine during the closing stages of 🍰FP3. 

Having failed to set a lap time, Grosjean will st🍨art Sunday’s race from 20th on the grid. 

“That’s probably up there on the podium [for bad luck this year] - I’m getting the bad luck for next season and maybe even 2021,ℱ” Grosjean told Sky Sports F1.

“It's a tough series but everyone is taking it as good as they can. We're laughing about it bec🍸ause at one point that's the only thing you've got to do.”

Haas has been bolstered by a revised aerodynamic package in Montreal, whꦉich Grosjean says is the only positive of a weekend in which he has already suffered damage to his updated front wing having collided with a groundhog in FP2. 

“The positive is the car feels really good with the upgra♛de, we had a really good pace through practice. I k🧔new I could be best of the rest today,” he explained.

Grosjean has endured his worst-ev💦er start to an F1 season and is one of only two drivers on the grid yet to score a point in 2018.

The Frenchman was forced into retire🍃ment after a botchꦇed pitstop in Australia, before he was hampered by bodywork damage in Bahrain and finished 17th in China. 

Grosjean spun out under a Safety Car period while running ei✨ghth in Baku, before causing a multi-car collision on the opening lap of May’s Spanish Grand Prix that led to 💃a three-place grid penalty in Monaco, where he struggled to 15th. 

Haas team principal Günther Steiner 🔯- who has repeatedly backed his driver to 🍷recover from his dismal start to the campaign - added: “I think we cannot get rid of being unlucky, as much as we don’t believe in it. With Romain, we were finding a good speed in the car, then we had an issue with the power unit, so that was his day done.”