{"id":3484,"date":"2020-11-30T19:25:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2020-11-30T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:57:15","slug":"vettels-pointed-question-over-horrific-f1-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"Vettel's pointed question over horrific F1 'fail'"},"content":{"rendered":"

The halo may have saved Romain Grosjean's life but Formula One still has big questions to answer after his horrific Bahrain GP crash<\/a>, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel says.<\/p>\n

Grosjean escaped with only minor burns when his car was torn in half by a barrier and exploded in flames on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The halo, F1's 2018 safety addition that wraps around the driver cockpit, prevented a tragedy<\/a>, as did quick reactions from Grosjean, track marshals and medical staff.<\/p>\n

Yet Vettel questioned how Grosjean's Haas car had speared through the safety barrier and then burst into a fireball.<\/p>\n

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"I haven't looked at the images a lot because I didn't really want to but the main thing is he got out. I don't know how, to be honest," said Vettel, who with Grosjean is a Grand Prix Drivers' Association director.<\/p>\n

"But obviously the guardrail is not supposed to fail like that. I mean, it's good the cars are safer than they used to be in the past but the guardrail shouldn't fail and the car shouldn't catch fire in that fashion.<\/p>\n

"There are a lot of precautions so that it doesn't fail, so I don't know what happened there. I think it's difficult to say at this stage but the main thing is obviously that he got out."<\/p>\n

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McLaren driver Carlos Sainz echoed Vettel's queries.<\/p>\n

"I never expected honestly a Formula One car and an armco to generate that kind of crash," Sainz said.<\/p>\n

"It's definitely something we need to look into as general safety, without pointing fingers at all.<\/p>\n

"It's another day where we need to learn as a sport, same as we have to learn from days like Mugello and the days of Anthoine for example.<\/p>\n

"There's always an opportunity to feel lucky that nothing major happened today and always an opportunity to learn and keep making this sport as safe as possible."<\/p>\n

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Sainz was involved in a pile-up at Mugello, caused by a botched restart, while Anthoine Hubert was killed in the 2019 F2 Belgium race.<\/p>\n

It isn't only the crash that is bringing scrutiny to F1 but the immediate response in the race broadcast.<\/p>\n

Australian Renault driver Daniel Ricciardo was furious<\/a> that the Grosjean crash was played repeatedly on television.<\/p>\n

"I want to express my disgust and disappointment with Formula One," Ricciardo said.<\/p>\n

"For me, it was entertainment and they're playing with all of our emotions and I thought it was pretty disgusting."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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