Romain Grosjean says his outbursts over team radio simply reflect his passion and are not aimed personally towards his Haas team.
Over the course of the season Grosjean has regularly been recorded complaining over team radio about problems he has encountered during race weekends. The Frenchman insists his radio messages are the result of his passionate nature and that his team fully understands his approach.
"Sometimes I've got the tendency to be too pushy and too passionate, but that's what the guys love," Grosjean said. "When I crashed the car in qualifying at Singapore I came back and said, 'Very sorry it's going to be a long night' and they said, 'We don't care, we know you are out there doing one 120percent and that's what we want to see.'
"There's nothing personal when I say the car is bad and so on. It's to put words on the feeling, which is not so easy to do. It's like when you try something and it's disgusting and you are like, 'I hate it', its bad but it's not against the thing or the cook. It's just not your taste, but you need to put a word on the feeling. I'm passionate, I'm not a Finn that is very calm, I'm more a Latin guy."
After a brilliant start to the season with sixth and fifth place finishes in Australia and Bahrain respectively, both Haas drivers have been hit by a plethora of niggling issues in recent races, which have prevented the American-outfit from scoring a single point since the European Grand Prix in Baku in June.
While Grosjean admits he finds it difficult to remain calm and tight-lipped in certain scenarios, he says he is simply focused on continuing to push Haas forwards.
"They know it. It sounds like I'm an a--hole in the car but in the end I'm a nice guy, or I think I'm a nice guy, and everyone knows it, and they know that if I'm pushing it's because I'm pushing myself, and I want to push everyone the same way.
"I'm not coming here, being drunk three nights before, coming in the mornings, 'Ah, I'm going to do my job.' I'm coming here, I drank one night, but I've trained, I've rested, I've done my nutrition, I've done everything correct, and I want it to be 100%.
"I've tried to back off, because it's playing on the TV and so on, and people who don't know me, they think it's wrong. I can tell you I'm passionate."