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Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean refrained from excessive damage in spite of a frightening wreck all the tactic in which thru Sunday’s Bahrain Gargantuan Prix.
“Romain is doing okay, I catch now no longer are desirous to manufacture a scientific commentary nonetheless he had light burns on his hands and ankles,” Haas team main Guenther Steiner said Sunday. “Clearly he is shaken… I are desirous to thank the rescue crews who’re very mercurial. The marshals and FIA of us they did an infinite job, it modified into frightening.”
Grosjean’s automobile hit the barrier all the tactic in which thru the principle lap of the bustle, main to a fiery explosion whereas the automobile modified into spoil up in two.
The driver modified into ready to leave the automobile and modified into rapid transported to the scientific centre in an ambulance. Constant with ESPN, he will occupy now no longer less than one broken rib.
The Bahrain Gargantuan Prix modified into halted with a purple flag whereas Jack Nicholls of BBC Sports activities necessary that it be “plausible that the bustle would no longer restart.”
Different drivers commented on the inform of affairs:
Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton
I am so grateful Romain is safe. Wow… the risk we prefer is now no longer any comic epic, for those of you available within the market that forget that we build our lifestyles on the line for this sport and for what we like to quit. Grateful to the FIA for the broad strides we occupy taken for Romain to hasten faraway from that safely https://t.co/dG8AXmsbKN
Grosjean, 34, has been tantalizing by F1 since 2009 and entered Sunday in 18th inform within the latest driver standings. The French driver has 10 podiums in his profession.