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It’s hard to say, and of course full investigations will be conducted. Speaking after the race ended, F1’s Ross Brawn was candid about how troubling the barrier issue was, but called the Halo a “lifesaver.”
“Without a doubt, we have to do a very deep analysis of all the things that happened because there were a number of things that should not have happened,” he told Sky Sports F1.
“We have to see how everything failed, because everything is designed to fail progressively. But such a catastrophic crash obviously things went wrong in an unpredictable way, ”said Brawn.
This was an unusual place to crash, but that’s almost irrelevant. The barriers should be able to withstand much greater forces without reacting as they did. In fact, they usually do, even without the addition of Tecpro barriers in the front, designed to absorb some of the initial impact.
There are big questions about how the car split in two and what caused this huge, instantaneous fire, and Brawn’s talk of things failing unpredictably is a very high point.
At present, it seems more likely that the barrier failure had caused the car to split (the front part jammed and the force caused the rear part to split) in a way that left the fuel tank exposed and caused the fire. It’s impossible to know until more research is done.
The fact that the crash, prior to impact, seemed so relatively routine, and by no means at excessively high speed or at a particularly odd angle, is now the biggest concern, we now know of Grosjean’s own relative good health.
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