It’s one of those crashes and happy endings that F1 sometimes has in store for us and which ends in a lot of damage for almost nothing. This time the hapless but ultimately unscathed hero is Chinese driver Guanyu Zhou whose British F1 GP lasted mere seconds, in a car with all four tires in the air. A chain reaction after his Alfa Romeo was hit by George Russel’s Mercedes itself hit Pierre Gasly’s Alpha Tauri. The Chinese single-seater slid for several tens of meters, passed over a safety barrier before completing its mad race stopped by a fence just before the public.
The Chinese driver was evacuated on a stretcher to the circuit hospital. The International Automobile Federation said the driver could speak and had no broken bones, adding that“Given the circumstances, he is doing quite well”. He remains under observation at the medical center. Another pilot victim of the crash, the Thai Alexander Albon (Williams) was to be “transferred by helicopter to Coventry Hospital for precautionary examinations».
After this accident the race was interrupted for a new start. Which was almost delayed due to the invasion of the track by demonstrators. It was Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz who finally won this eventful GP
Earlier in the day, the F2 race had also been the scene of a spectacular accident between two single-seaters/
One of the scariest crashes that F1 has experienced in recent years is that of Sébastien Grosjean, on November 29, 2020 at the Bahrain GP when his car exploded after going off the track. After minutes that felt like hours, the pilot pulled himself out of the flames.
Another miracle of F1, the Polish Robert Kubika during the Canadian GP in 2017. The car, thrown across the track, rolled over and crashed into a wall According to the readings of the black box, the impact took place at 230 km/h. The Pole, prisoner of his single-seater for several minutes, was evacuated to the medical center and then to a hospital in Montreal: he suffered from a slight head trauma and a sprained ankle. He intends to line up for the United States GP the following weekend, but the FIA doctors are against it.
One of the most scariest crashes in Formula 1.
Robert Kubica at 2007 Canadian GP.
F1 has come a long way in safety. Don’t know if he would have survived that crash had it happened 20 or 30 years ago.# F1 #AzerbaijanGP pic.twitter.com/1EvLM7sN1j
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These accidents prove the incredible efficiency of F1 survival cells. The last fatal accident in F1 was that of Frenchman Jules Bianchi, who collided with a crane during the Japanese Grand Prix in October 2014. French Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert lost his life in a crash with another single-seater at the Belgian GP in 2019.