At Barber Motorsports Park, Romain Grosjean prepares to get into a cockpit of a Dallara/Honda NTT INDYCAR for the very first time with the motor running in anger. Image Credit: Joe Skibinski via NICS 2021

For Romain Grosjean's (#r8g) first test in an NTT INDYCAR at Barber Motorsports Park, he was beginning to discover that less is more as it relates to the driving excitement found in the technical specification platform built by Dallara, powered by Honda, and set up by a much smaller crew that what he was familiar with in Formula 1.