Romain Grosjean continued his recovery in hospital in Bahrain, where he spent a third night amid treatment for burns to the back of both of his hands. He was discharged on Wednesday. The French driver will miss this weekend’s second race in Bahrain but is not ruling out a return for the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP next week to ensure that the accident “isn’t the way I finish my F1 career”.
That Grosjean escaped Sunday’s crash with relatively minor injuries proved miraculous given the scale and force of the accident. His Haas car was split in two by its high-speed 53G impact with the barriers and the wreckage he was sitting in burst into flames.
Romain Grosjean told French nationwide daily newspaper ‘L’Équipe’ that Scuderia Ferrari German driver Sebastian Vettel visited him at the hospital on Monday morning: “Sebastian Vettel came to visit me at the hospital on Monday morning. We said to ourselves that we need to have trained commissioners, maybe the same everywhere. When they told me that they will put me on the stretcher I’ve said no we’re gonna walk to the ambulance. I wanted the helicopter to show me walking, I wanted the world to see that I was hurt but okay.”
Mick Schumacher was announced today as one of Haas’s new drivers for the 2021 F1 season, alongside Nikita Mazepin, as Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen are set to leave Haas: “I’ve posted on Instagram a nice message for Mick, because he deserves the seat. Afterwards Mick sent me a message on WhatsApp to thank me for that and I replied by jokingly bashing him.” – he said.
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