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Doctor's first thought was ‘where's the other half of the car?'
Formula 1’s medical crew explained that the first thought upon arriving at the scene of Romain Grosjean’s Bahrain Grand Prix accident was to determine the location of the survival cell. Grosjean suffered a high-speed crash at Turn 3 on the opening lap as his VF-20 speared across the circuit and hit the barriers head-on. Grosjean’s car was split in two upon impact, with the monocoque piercing the barriers, and the car erupted into flames. Dr. Ian Roberts and Medical Car driver Alan van der Merwe, who follow the rear of the field at every race, quickly tended to Grosjean. “The approach to the scene was very odd,” said Roberts in an interview with F1TV. “We’ve got a fireball...
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