Just how Romain Grosjean walked off from F1’s Wildest crash in Years

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  The medical vehicle and monitor marshals were on the scene after Grosjean’s car came to rest, half it wedged to the guardrail. [charge: BRYN LENNON/POOL/AFP through Getty Images ]

{The Formula 1 cars had {} it a third of the way round the trail prior to the red flag brought a temporary halt for the weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. |} The beginning of an F1 race is more frequently chaotic, particularly one of the rear of this grid, so it proved to Sunday if the Haas VF-20 pushed by Romain Grosjean speared off course into the right after leaving three.

Initial lap crashes are not that unusual at the game, unlike what occurred next. After hitting the guardrail at roughly 137mph (220km/h), then Grosjean’s automobile ripped in half an hour then burst in to flames–a thing which has not occurred for more than 30 decades. To make things worse, front {} the guardrails that lined this part of course. As accidents go, this one has been {} of those bad old times of F1, the type who claimed the lives of motorists such as Roger Williamson or even Francois Cevert.

However, Grosjean walked {} gingerly–with bit more harm than a few burns his handson. And that’s a testament to the security that is built into contemporary F1.