Throughout his time at the track and the 30-minute long press conference with written media, Grosjean was all smiles, the Frenchman evidently happy to be alive and have escaped serious injury. Grosjean left hospital on Wednesday after receiving treatment for burns on the back of his hands, and will continue to receive treatment privately. On the secret injury that proves his pain threshold “I feel the pain, my hands are in the fire but also I feel the relief that I am out of the car, and then I jump out, go on the barrier, feel Ian pulling on my overall so I know I am not on my own anymore and there is someone with me, I land and they touch on my back so I’m like ‘I am a running fireball’. So I don’t know why I did what I did but I decided to turn my helmet on the left hand side and to go up like this and try and twist my shoulder, that sort of works, but then I realise my foot is stuck in the car so I sit back down, pull as hard as I can on my left leg, the shoe stayed where my foot was but my foot came out of the shoe, and then I do it again and the shoulders are going through and the time the shoulder was through I know I’m going to jump out.”īut in doing that, he’s put both of his hands in fire and he can see the gloves starting to melt. “Then I think about my kids, and I say 'no they cannot lose their Dad today'. READ MORE: As a driver, you never think it will happen to you, but Grosjean’s crash was a stark reminder of F1’s risks - Jolyon Palmer column “Then there’s the less pleasant moment where my body start to relax, I’m in peace with myself and I’m going to die. “I try to go up a bit more on the right, it doesn’t work, go on the left, doesn’t work so I sit back down and thought about Niki Lauda, his accident, thought it couldn’t end like this, it couldn’t be my last race, it couldn’t finish like this, no way, so I try again,” he said. In a harrowing tale, he said his first thought was to wait, but when he saw the fire, he knew he had to find a way to get out himself. But the Frenchman said it felt more like 90 seconds. That was how long it took from impact for Grosjean to escape the inferno. “This podium is definitely dedicated to my mechanics. “I thought the race was over before it had even started so to be second is like a victory,” said Verstappen, who moved up to third in the championship with his best result of the season, afterwards. With the forecast rain staying away and Hamilton’s teammate Valtteri Bottas struggling to make his way back through the field after a poor start, Verstappen had a largely uneventful race before holding off the Finn over the final lap to split the Mercedes on the podium. That hard work paid off with Verstappen enjoying a flying start to the race itself – moving up to third before the first lap was over and then soon up into second behind Hamilton. The Red Bull slides off the circuit and hits the barriers on his way to the grid!Ĭan they fix the car? □ #SkyF1 | #F1 | #HungarianGP □□ /7fTGgnMuZmįortunately for him, they got the car fixed in time for the start. Verstappen managed to reverse out of the barrier to limp into the pits, sending his team’s mechanics into a frenzy.
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