Exactly, Romain could have been trapped under the barrier. Would have been very nasty.

It was my immediate thought - normally, guard rails don't split like that but bend as a one piece. Reminds me of rally accident of Robert Kubica - he almost died because guard rail wasn't secured properly...

@@eTengu yes and no, it was just one part of rail when kubica had its accident, right ? he just hit it in the worst way he could

IMO there are difference in terms of structure, design, damage, impact angle, etc. between guardrails on certain parts of the circuit. Probably, the guardrails near the straight is weaker compared to guardrails near the corner because it was not expected to have a major crash on that part

@@ItIsYourBoyMe Also a bit weird the fuel tank stuck with the driver and caught fire. Some serious improvements to be made.

Car splitting in two dissipated the force exactly as it's supposed to. But the fuel cell shouldn't have ruptured so easily.

Yes he really shut down the self-congratulations there by reminding everyone what the focus should be, the fact that a barrier should never heve failed in that way.

@@Undivided_X the cars aren’t supposed to split in half though, and I’m pretty sure the car splitting did nothing to soften the impact as it was 56 G smash

@@surrealorb8325 yeah I'm relatively sure that according to the laws of physics, if an object breaks on impact, the total force (and consequently, velocity) gets distributed (as a vector sum) among the remaining pieces, so technically, the car breaking would have had some impact in reducing the G force of the safety cell itself. The question is, would that resultant G force of the safety cell part of the car be safe enough. Arguably not if Grosjean had just hit an unyielding object headfirst, which is where we can be thankful that it was the halo that took that impact and not Grosjean's helmet.

@@surrealorb8325 they're literally designed to split in half

and the car shouldn’t have exploded like that

Guard rails on straights are not designed for almost 90 degree high speed impact but sharp angle ones. Obviously they need to rethink the design due to rare occasions like this.

Inspector Seb doing his job.

@@azranasuha3306 the car only exploded because the front was caught by the barrier but the rear was doing 250+ kph, which made it snap in half and spill out the fuel.

@@azranasuha3306 It exploded like that because the barrier ripped the car in half exposing the fuel. The cars are designed to not explode like that hence why we never see cars go up in flames like that on impact, even major ones, but again, in this case the car was ripped in half. And that guard rail isn't a common one either, it's probably been there since the track was first constructed and was never disturbed. I'm sure it will all be revised now, and thank goodness Romain is okay.

More like the approach of a GPDA member.

@@banb6385 GPDA director

Yeah

All Germans I know are always straight to the point and are like him

It's true, it's very good Romain survived and is OK considering the circumstances, but the FIA absolutely have to investigate what happened for the guard rail to fail like that and for the car to split into two pieces and burst into flames

same

When the commentators went quite I thought he had died

My heart kept going, no change.

Same

It didn't just burst into flames, it exploded.

The safety of these cars has came a very very very long way to this point to have the halo screen if it wasn't there Romain Grosjean would have dead on impact

Yeah it is

It was Ripedd in half roaring lion

I think In some way the car breaking saved him as well. Imagine if he got stuck in the barrier with his car. It woulf have been even more difficult to get out.

Its only halo

how?, grosjean was the idiot that crossed the entire track.

And then also when he crashed into Stroll. I actually feel sorry for him

@@horacio7465 By the looks of it Grosjean hit debris from Stroll which caused him to veer off traxck

@@YourLocalDave I don't think Kvyat deserved that penalty, he was inside and didn't really have anywhere to go

@@rando842 Kvyat got the penalty for the incident with Stroll.

Me too. Horrifying.

Same. That was horrific. Crofty done well to keep it together during his commentary. All I could think was that Grosjean was gone but thankfully he got out. Hopefully we don't see things like this again.

same...

My heart sank, especially after it took so long to see footage of him in the medical car, was mentally preparing for a grim announcement.

same, was 99% sure he was dead.

I was like why aren’t they showing him

@@lohithreddy6629 exactly that's why my heart sunk because the last time that happened was with Anthoine last year and Jules in 2014

I know! If we had seen the replay before seeing him in the medical car I wouldn’t have quite believed my eyes at first!

@@AmanAli-dc1sy I was shitting it because after a crash when they pan to a wide-shot usually they think it's a fatality

It's all about you.

Lol at the birthday thing

Track Marshall’s were pretty poor in my opinion. Without the medic car at the start and Romain sorting himself out he wouldn’t be here

@@johnstonlee well what were they meant to do there were only three marshals there and they did all they could

@@luckysharma5319 watch the first Marshall on the screen spraying the tarmac. Hardly in life saving mode was he.

@@johnstonleehe was keeping a safe distance from the car as there was nothing he could do from that side

he wouldn't survive such a crash 5 years ago

He doesn't survive this 3 years ago tbh it was awful

No need to go 50 years back, just 5 Without HALO, Grosjean would've been decapitated

Probably would have been just as dangers a couple years ago (-halo) never mind the 70s.

Man theres no way he could survive this in any car without HALO. His head would be gone.

Bruh you here

Wait a minute... You watch F1?

@@andresaare1802 Bro I want to believe you aren't talk serious

Crashjean just wanted a retirement highlight crash

@@andlaine That’s not the right time to say it. Cmon he just survived fatal crash and you just make fun of him? What’s wrong with you?

You would have to be a complete psychopath to hope someone died/got hurt because of a racing mistake and not only that but then say that on live TV. How dumb are you to be impressed by that? It doesn’t show any special respect, that’s just normal.

@@Steve-ph7qn You’ve massively misunderstood Kvyat and Ciaran Racing. Kvyat said he was angry he got his nose cut off, completely understandable reaction, you are racing and someone cutting across you is annoying, he wasn’t in anyway saying he hoped Grojean died, that is a massive leap in logic that makes no sense, he even says himself that when he realised just how serious the incident was that all annoyance was gone immediately and fully replaced with concern and hoping his fellow driver was okay. He also says thank god he’s okay, how can you misconstrue that to “hope he died”

Kvyat response was any normal person's response, it doesn't show how much they care for each other. Wishing anything but the best would be the response whether you liked or hated the guy.

@@rogueslipheed6478 nice essay but clearly you can’t read. Edited my message since apparently it wasn’t obvious enough.

@@Steve-ph7qn See that makes more sense, it isn't my ability to read that's the issue here, it's your ability to articulate yourself.

@@jonas210034 take some medicine dude...

@@jonas210034 get a life mate

You idiotic idiot , it isn't nice seeing drivers in danger

@@jonas210034 something wrong in your head mate

Why are you so sadistic

Same

I was on a ferry and shouted oh my god. Everyone looked at me. 😬

Yep, same

I screamed too. It was a horror.

I nearly got sick

Yes, the camera angle is so scary

It's basically an upside down plane crash

Yup. Not sure what fuel these cars run off but I know some motorbike race bikes run off something similar to aviation fuel

@Marius Ipad Bit of an unnecessary comment, btw fun fact bombs that killed innocent civilians in the middle East were sent from USA that's Just next to Canada

True

Good thing is that Romain only suffered minor burns on his ankle and his hand. Still waiting for another update but i hope he was fine

I thought he should have stopped and helped out

@@johnstonlee Funny guy...

@@GenericZac well that’s what I would have done any way

@@johnstonlee lol, you have no idea what you are talking about.

I hated it at first, but I'm glad nobody paid any attention to what I was thinking. 😉 It's not as fugly as it first struck me, and I shudder at what the aftermath today might have looked like without the halo. 🤦‍♂️ I just hope it doesn't turn out we need windshields for acceptable safety, because the indy cars I've seen recently make me want to vomit. No doubt F1 would be a lot safer if cars' wheels couldn't hook each other and potentially launch or flip cars like we also saw in today's race, but I sure hope the open wheel part of open wheel racing doesn't come to an end any time soon because it's just too dangerous. I'm feeling a bit conflicted right now because on a day like today, it's hard to justify opposition toward anything that would improve survivability, but where do you draw the line? This is one time I'm pretty happy nobody cares what I think. 😉😁👍

Funny thing is, Grosjean was a pretty vocal opponent of the halo IIRC.

@@AD-df5tm yeah he admitted that in his message from the hospital but said his mind changed about the halo

i never liked the halos but after this i love them.

@@ledchickenfpv7164 Given the problems with the windshield approach (they're so thick that the view is distorted pretty bad, IIRC Vettel got carsick?) and the massive pressure to get rid of internal combustion engines altogether as soon as possible, it's likely that "Formula 1" as we know it will probably disappear before we get to windshields. Though windshields themselves would be nothing new to the sport - they were on lots of cars all the way up through 1990, though for aerodynamic reasons rather than protection.

3 years ago without halo he wouldn't have survived coming through the rail like he did.

Each barrier is designed in a different way. This is the barrier on a straight, it is not expected to get hit head-on as its designed to be hit at a shallow angle and to not bounce a car back out into the middle of the very fast straight. Unlike a corner barrier with tyres that are designed to cushion a car and slow it down that way. Definitely something for the FIA to look into though, maybe on all sections where the barrier comes out next to a service road, they should have a tyre wall or similar?

And it cannot be that close and at that angle to the track.

You don't know what you are talking about.

@@DaviAtrock If you look at the track layout that barrier is honestly completely reasonably placed. That a car should ever hit it at that angle is extremely unlikely.

considering the violence of the impact and the fact that the car was ripped in two, i cant imagine what his body would have gone through if the barrier didnt absorb that much energy

Look up for how long Vettel has been racing in F1. He's knows first hand how badly these accidents can go.

I unfortunately have seen the Feature Race of F2 Spa last year as well, it makes you appreciate racing so much more, but never needs a reminder like this to make one understand what risk they are taking out there!

Watching with you must be a nightmare...

Shows that even tho the cars get so safe the circumstances like faulty guard rails can mean the difference

My mind instantly went there, I called home straight away (I’m at uni away from home but we watch it religiously) and my mum was already calling me we both were silent on each end waiting for him to appear. That was earth shatteringly close. My god.

@@kickschippers4934 Lisa or lena

@Señor Popeyes Insightful

I think its uglier than sin. But I'm a huge fan of it being on open cockpit cars.

I’m pretty sure he has kids. Correct me if I’m wrong. Luckily he survived

@@sindhusojan8225 He does, I think

❤️

@@sindhusojan8225 he has 3 sons

The people that disliked the video probably disliked the the fact it happened at all. Nobody has reason to wish him harm

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He thought hecwas going to burn to death first too, what a horrific moment.

I guess even in 2017 he would have died.

Yeah, imagine...

Yeah people laughed when they started talking about bringing in the halo. This would have definitely been a death without it.

@@anarchybreed Agreed bro..

@@Charliechorizo It could have been terrible..

yeah, Grosjean had God on his side today, i think he saved himself the fact that he was even conscious after such a stunt is amazing, i didn't want to see someone die live on TV, hopefully he gets back healthy and i can continue memeing later

@@NightElveee fk god

God? Why did it happen then? Maybe more the need to live on for his children and his wife

exactly my thought, i remember instantly

Not wrong , guardrail should be replaced or covered

Hello Stephanie, Are we open to know each other?

And Helmut Koinigg!

@@BAR-wd2sx Surprised at how little his passing has been mentioned, the incident with the barrier is very very similar. Maybe because it is just such a awful incident, people are trying not to bring it up.

F1 do have a lot of safe barriers, but yeah, not sure why that particular barrier is like that, I know it's not a usual place for an F1 car to be/crash at but still, they should have those tire barriers every wall/guard. It's probably been there since the track was first constructed and was never disturbed. I'm sure it will all be revised now, and thank goodness Romain is okay.

I think it's because of the cost, but i'm not sure..

No I think he's talking about the safer barrier it's currently only used on oval circuits but it has an ungodly amount of energy reduction safer (steel and foam energy reduction)

This barrier should flex and dampen the impact, but in this case it clearly didn't do it well enough.

Because normal drivers dont crash on those straights usually...

*God

No, thank science and engineering.

@@MarkChance why God has given ideas of advanced science to the people so that's why halo was used and other safety features

@@kiranjitkaur1508 So you're basically saying, god created the halo. I see what you did there. Very clever and funny.

Why don't yoou god for the crash?

That's a good one.

@@codiersklave Thanks!

He clearly ok 😂😂😂

Idiot

@@alex_o_56 XD.

You should of done that before the race

@@laurenball2950 depending on what you call ok

Until I saw him in the car I thought he was dead.

For me its kinda more like Helmuth Koinigg's fatal crash in Watkins Glen and Martin Donnelly's crash in Jerez

@@fabianrocha9924 That was the first thing I thought when I saw the car go through the railings, he's a lucky boy...

@@fabianrocha9924 oooohh yea that was a reeaallyy bad one

@@fabianrocha9924 looked up the koinigg crash saw the thumbnail and just couldn’t watch it. Honestly horrific.

@@prod.cozybeats2299 Good decision.

Verstappens spillover in the pitlane?

@@David-eh9le Yeah

They only survived because of the halo.

Does he have broken ribs? Are you sure? I only heard about "2 broken toes" so far

@@Abissiko They said something about Grosjean Possibly having about 2 broken ribs during the red flag update.

@@jeffreyvences5746 oh okay, thanks Still, he is one lucky guy!

@@Abissiko Yes he is!!! We will most likely find out by tomorrow what's going on.

I’ll take those injuries any day of the week with a crash like that

It's so that you can easily drag a car off of the track without having to drag it all the way around the track they have openings like this on almost every single permanent formula 1 track. But what they should do to make it safer instead of angling it just put one barrier offset to the next barrier so that they're still parallel with the track and able to drag the car off the track I don't know why they never thought about that

That was my thought also. the angle of inpact was could not be alot worse.

Exactly what i thought!! Those rails are inwards to the track and not parallel.

Bro F off, you’re just using him for likes on a comment

@@lucablandino1268 ???

@@sein_cousin305 he's just saying you are fishing him for likes which doesn't seem far from true..

Fortunately for Romain not the same. Anthoine's monocoque split in two whereas grosjeans stayed together and the car split behind him.

@@lucablandino1268 at least he isn’t begging for it

To be fair Antoine had bad luck. Jules wasn't precautious enough and was travelling too fast under double yellow flags and on a slippery track. Romain ... well ... we all know his experience on crashing cars and driving like an idiot. Jean Alesi was a pretty expensive pilot in terms of car damages. Olivier Panis broke a leg in a bad luck situation. Sebastian Bourdais took a hard hit at Indy 500 qualifiying. I don't know why us frenchies like to wreck cars but judging by how badly we drive everyday, I'm not that much surprised...