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Having cheated death, Grosjean gets behind wheel of car again

Agence France-Presse

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Having cheated death, Grosjean gets behind wheel of car again

CONQUERING TRAUMA. Romain Grosjean musters up the courage to get behind the wheel again.

Photo from Romain Grosjean's Instagram

'I sat down and I saw death, not close up, but from too close,' recalls Grosjean, who escaped a fiery crash

Romain Grosjean sat in a Haas Formula One car again on Saturday, December 5, for the first time since escaping from a fiery crash with just burns to his hands during the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Just 6 days after the 34-year-old Frenchman extricated himself from the blaze that engulfed him on the opening lap of last Sunday’s race, he was back in the paddock again.

He later posted a photo of himself in his car on social media, adding the message: “Not my usual racing gloves on, but sitting back in @haasfeteam felt really good. I was so happy.”

Grosjean’s car split in half in a 245 kph impact with the barriers in one of the most dramatic incidents in the recent history of Formula One.

The guardrail ruptured in the crash and left him trapped in the front half of his wrecked car while the rear half broke away and stopped close by.

He has said he “saw death too closely” in the crash, telling AFP in an interview on Wednesday: “I thought: ‘It can’t end like this, not now’. I tried to get out again, but I couldn’t, so I sat down and I saw death, not close up, but from too close … It’s a feeling that I wish on no-one.”

The drivers are competing in Bahrain for the second week in a row with the Sakhir Grand Prix to take place in the kingdom on Sunday.

Valtteri Bottas pipped stand-in Mercedes team-mate George Russell to take pole position with already-crowned world champion Lewis Hamilton sitting out the race after testing positive for Covid-19. – Rappler.com

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