The French driver, who suffered a terrible accident in the weekend’s F1 race, spoke in an interview that on Sunday he appeared to have been born a second time.

Romain Grosjean could easily have made the mistake he made in the first round of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix: after colliding with one of his rivals, his racing car crashed into the metal railing that delimited the track, splitting into two and caught fire. The French Haas pilot spent 28 seconds in the high flames before he could free himself from the car seat wedged into the railing. He came out of his own strength, and it later turned out that he had suffered injuries to his hands and left leg. His bone was not broken.

For the first time since his accident, the pilot gave a longer interview to the French TF1, in which he expressed it this way: he does not know if what happened to him could be used for the word miracle, in any case he would say that it was not the time to To die.

“It seemed like a lot more than 28 seconds. I could see through my helmet that everything was orange, I could see the flames burning from the left side of the car. Many things went through my mind, Niki Lauda also came to mind, and I thought it was not possible to end like this, not now. I can’t end my story in Formula One like this.

And then, for my kids, I told myself I had to get out. I reached into the fire, I could clearly feel the body on fire. I looked outside, then I felt someone put my overalls on and I knew I was coming out. “

Grosjean, with three children, put it this way: Sunday was as if he had been born a second time. He revealed that his five-year-old son, Simon, said he had magical powers and was protected by a “magical shield of love.”

The broker feels that he will also need to speak to a professional after what he has experienced. “I was more afraid of my family and friends and, of course, of my children, of whom I am most proud and from whom I draw the most energy.

I think I need to work on this spiritually because I really saw death coming. “

He also spoke about the fact that while he is very happy to be alive and sees a lot of things in his life quite differently than before, he feels like he has to sit in the race car for the last race of the year. It has already been revealed that Haas reserve driver and test driver Pietro Fittipaldi will start at the Sahiri Grand Prix this weekend, with the desire to start in the season-ending Abu Dhabi race.

It is expected to be the last race of his career as Haas has not extended the contract to either him or his teammate Kevin Magnussen. On Tuesday it was revealed that one of the cars in the US-based barn will be driven in 2021 by Russian Nikita Mazepin. The other meeting is expected to be held by Mick Schumacher, son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.

Is already exercising

After the most horrible accident in recent years, F1 drivers and team representatives spoke that Grosjean did not have a major problem, mainly due to safety rules and recently introduced devices to protect cyclists, including a system halo to protect against head injury. The degree to which all of this protected the pilot is demonstrated by his photo published Tuesday morning, in which he wrote: his body regenerates long after the massive collision – it was affected by a force of more than 50 G on impact – He’s already squatting and trusting that his hands heal too. He also added a smiley emoticon accompanied by the fact that he can still type very slowly.

Haas team boss Günther Steiner also revealed details of Grosjean’s condition on Tuesday afternoon. Doctors say the healing process is progressing as expected, but the Frenchman can only leave the hospital on Wednesday, a day later than planned. “No problem, it’s more about speeding up a full recovery if you stay in the hospital one more night,” Steiner explained.



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