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Monday 30 noveMber 2020

Hamilton wins Bahrain GP, Grosjean

escapes burning car

SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — For- high speed on the first lap “I think it is a reminder to us
mula One champion Lewis and his Haas car burst into and hopefully to the peo-
Hamilton won a crash- flames after being sliced in ple that are watching that
marred Bahrain Grand Prix two by a barrier. Grosjean this is a dangerous sport,”
where Romain Grosjean clambered out with the Hamilton said.
somehow escaped with fire roaring behind him and Grosjean’s relieved team
only minor burns after his his race helmet singed. He said the driver had only
car exploded into a fireball. was conscious and stable light burns to his hands and
The 34-year-old French and then taken by helicop- ankles.
driver slid off the track at ter to a military hospital. The crash happened with
Staff extinguish flames from Haas driver Romain Grosjean of
France's car after a crash during the Formula One race in Bah-
rain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Sunday, Nov. 29,
2020. Associated Press.

seven-time F1 champion pened in my mirrors,” Kvyat
Hamilton leading from Red said.
Bull’s Max Verstappen and “I was really worried. It was
Racing Point’s Sergio Perez. a scary moment.”
Hamilton, who secured his Hamilton’s record-extend-
title at the Turkish GP on ing 95th win saw him finish
Nov. 15, was subdued and ahead of Verstappen, who
did not celebrate his win took his 41st career podium
after climbing out of his car, and a bonus point with the
other than a brief fist-pump fastest lap.
with the Red Bull drivers. The 35-year-old Hamilton
“It was such a shocking im- looked drained at the end.
age to see ... horrifying. It “It’s physical, this track
could have been so much has always been physical.
worse,” Hamilton said. “I re- We’ve got lots of high-
spect the dangers that are speed corners so I was defi-
in this sport.” nitely feeling it,” he said.
Moments after the race re- “I managed to just about
started about 90 minutes reply to him (Verstappen)
later, on Lap 3 of 57, there when I needed to but I
was another incident as was sliding around a lot
Lance Stroll’s Racing Point out there and I wasn’t re-
clipped the AlphaTauri of ally quite sure how it would
Daniil Kvyat and flipped play out at the end.”
over. Perez looked set to finish
Stroll joked about hang- third and clinch his 10th ca-
ing upside down in his car, reer podium, but his engine
before squirming out. The blew with three laps left
Canadian driver was un- and flames poured from
harmed. the back of his car as he
Kvyat was involved in both pulled over to the side.
crashes but not at fault. That put Red Bull’s Alexan-
The first accident hap- der Albon into third ahead
pened when Grosjean lost of the McLarens of Lando
grip and slid to the right, Norris and Carlos Sainz. Jr.
where his back wheel while Hamilton’s Mercedes
clipped the front of Kvyat’s teammate Valtteri Bottas
car and he flew off into the was only eighth.
barrier. There is another race in
“At first I was angry that Bahrain next Sunday — on
he had turned across me Sakhir’s shorter outer cir-
in the way he did, but that cuit — before the 17-race
changed as soon as I saw season concludes in Abu
the flames and what hap- Dhabi.q