It is the second miracle in the Formula 1 race in Bahrain: Not only does the Frenchman Grosjean climb out of the burning wreckage of his car himself after almost half a minute. In the evening, his racing team announced that the 34-year-old probably only burned the back of his hand. The French Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean survived his horror crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix without any breaks. The Haas racing team announced. The 34-year-old will “spend the night in the hospital to treat the burns on the back of his hands” that he suffered in his accident on the first lap. Both backs of the hands are bandaged. On Monday you will be able to say more when the associations are removed, said team boss Günter Steiner. Grosjean, with heavily bandaged hands, sent greetings from the sickbed that night and thanked everyone who had sent him messages. “I wasn’t for the Halo a few years ago, but it’s the greatest thing in Formula One,” he said. Halo is the ring-shaped titanium bracket that is stretched over the driver’s head in the cockpit.
The racing car of the Grosjean, who started from position 19, was thrown into a guardrail at around 250 kilometers per hour after touching the AlphaTauri of the Russian Daniil Kwjat. Upon impact, the car was torn in two and immediately went up in flames. The chassis was stuck in the guardrail, a front wheel rolled into the desert landscape of Sakhir. Grosjean, who was exposed to the heat for 27 seconds, was able to free himself from the wreck. Thanks to the monocoque and fireproof clothing, he was relatively well protected and got away with comparatively minor wounds and a great deal of horror. The race was then immediately stopped and the lap restarted an hour later. In the end, world champion Lewis Hamilton won again.
F1 horror crash in Bahrain Grosjean leaves this fireball almost unscathed
Steiner did not want to talk specifically about the plan to use a replacement driver at the next Grand Prix in Sakhir. The most important thing is that Grosjean is doing well. Plan B is to have the French back when he’s okay.