Frenchman’s car split in half after big collision with barriersDriver walks away with only second degree burns to handsRomain Grosjean’s remarkable escape from an enormous, violent, high-speed accident at the Bahrain
Grand Prix has been hailed as a testament to Formula One’s pursuit of safety. The Frenchman’s Haas car, which suffered a 53G impact, had split into two and he was engulfed in a fireball before climbing from the wreckage with relatively minor injuries.
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