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Tilke: ‘Several factors' caused Grosjean's horror crash

Hermann Tilke, the designer of the Bahrain circuit, believes that several things made Romain Grosjean's crash as severe as it was. Formula 1 saw its most serious crash in a long time when Grosjean crashed into the barriers at high speed in Bahrain, with half of his car piercing through them and a huge fire soon starting. While the safety levels in the sports were generally praised as the Frenchman somehow escaped the incident largely unharmed, concerns were still raised about the reasons for the severity of the crash. Tilke believes that it was a result of a number of factors coming together. “At some point, everything will break if the force is great enough. Several factors came...
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