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Grosjean ‘saw death coming' in fiery Bahrain crash

Romain Grosjean says he “saw death coming” and that the thought of his children propelled him to escape the burning wreckage of his Haas Formula 1 car. Grosjean suffered a high-speed impact with the barriers at the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix that split his car in half, at which point it burst into flames, with the survival cell embedded in the Armco. Grosjean managed to clamber free, having been in the flames for almost half a minute, at which point he was tended to by Formula 1’s medical crew. He suffered minor burns to his hands but X-rays determined that he had no fractures and doctors expect him to be released from hospital on Wednesday. “I don’t know whether miracles...
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