wow

[Datawiz]

Just how? Unreal.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

The way Netflix covered that was HORRIBLE. You'd think he was in that inferno for 15 minutes when he got out pretty much immediately.

He was beyond lucky. How a person can survive that boggles the mind.

[snide]

Incredible!

[86RAG]

Un****ingreal!!! They must have some DAMN good protective suits these days

[bigblock427]

Unbelievable! Wow!

[BayouCountry]

Wow!

Twenty eight seconds. That was how long it took from impact for Grosjean to escape the inferno. But the Frenchman said it felt more like 90 seconds.

In a harrowing tale, he said his first thought was to wait, but when he saw the fire, he knew he had to find a way to get out himself. But as he tried, he got stuck. “I try to go up a bit more on the right, it doesn’t work, go on the left, doesn’t work so I sit back down and thought about Niki Lauda, his accident, thought it couldn’t end like this, it couldn’t be my last race, it couldn’t finish like this, no way, so I try again,” he said. “Then there’s the less pleasant moment where my body start to relax, I’m in peace with myself and I’m going to die.

“Then I think about my kids, and I say 'no they cannot lose their Dad today'. So I don’t know why I did what I did but I decided to turn my helmet on the left hand side and to go up like this and try and twist my shoulder, that sort of works, but then I realise my foot is stuck in the car so I sit back down, pull as hard as I can on my left leg, the shoe stayed where my foot was but my foot came out of the shoe, and then I do it again and the shoulders are going through and the time the shoulder was through I know I’m going to jump out.”

But in doing that, he’s put both of his hands in fire and he can see the gloves starting to melt. “I feel the pain, my hands are in the fire but also I feel the relief that I am out of the car, and then I jump out, go on the barrier, feel [Dr] Ian [Roberts] pulling on my overall so I know I am not on my own anymore and there is someone with me, I land and they touch on my back so I’m like ‘I am a running fireball’.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...NOhS0BnvZ.html

Funny you posted this after I recently watched a Michael Waltrip documentary about his close friendship with Earnhardt Sr. Earnhardt refused to wear the most current protective helmet because he said he could feel the wind draft from other cars.

[Iron Chef]

I watched that and really didn't know at the time if he would get out alive. I was shocked when I saw him escape. Someone on the other team said he had the hand of God pulling him out. You look at something like that and tend to believe it.

It was Grosjean's last race in F1. His contract (and that of the other driver Kevin Magnussen) was not being renewed by HAAS Racing for the 2021 season anyway, but sometimes things happen that you have to take as an omen that it's time to leave while you can. He's driving in Indy Car now. If I remember correctly, there hasn't been a death of any kind in F1 since Ayerton Senna in 1994.

Side note: Michael Schumacher's son Mick is now driving for HAAS.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

Side note: Michael Schumacher's son Mick is now driving for HAAS.

Side side note: Haas sacked BOTH drivers, Grosjean and Magnussen last year. Mick's new teamate? Nikita Mazepin who is a class A douchebag.

Grosjean's wife sums it up well.