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Hero Roberts sheds light on those dramatic moments in Bahrain

Ian Roberts, the FIA's Medical Rescue Coordinator who rescued Romain Grosjean on Sunday gives insight into those moments that left the watching world breathless. As if the initial fiery explosion wasn't enough, the subsequent images of Romain Grosjean's car in two distinct pieces, the front half have pierced and passed through the barriers, merely added to the unfolding horror. Then came the dramatic shots of the Frenchman emerging from his car, engulfed in flames, and climbing over the barriers to safety, where marshals and the FIA's medical rescue coordinator, Dr Ian Roberts and Medical Car driver, Alan Van der Merwe escorted him away from the raging inferno behind. 'There was a massive...
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