The only Chinese racer in Formula One, Alfa Romeo’ Zhou Guanyu was involved in a horrific car crash on Sunday at the British Grand Prix. The incident which occurred during the first lap brought the race to an instant halt as the safety crew attended to the driver.
Zhou’s car turned upside down after a collision with one of the fellow racers, and the impact was so intense, that Zhou was thrust across the gravel, after which his Alfa Romeo got stuck between the fencing and the tire barrier, meanwhile, the driver was stuck inside the car, all this while.
As soon as the car got wedged near the first corner, the British Grand Prix was red-flagged, and George Russell, one of the fellow drivers involved in the crash left his car and rushed to check on Zhou.
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Scary accident. Glad to know that @ZhouGuanyu24 is doing ok! pic.twitter.com/kVGcHbHWCp
— Drifta (@djdrifta) July 3, 2022
Zhou was taken to the track’s medical centre for observation and credited the head-protecting ‘halo’ device on the cars for protecting him.
“I’m ok, all clear. Halo saved me today. Thanks everyone for your kind messages!” he wrote on Twitter.
Alex Albon of Williams was also taken to the medical centre and then his team said he’d been transferred by helicopter to Coventry Hospital for a precautionary check. Albon had spun into the pit wall after being struck by Sebastian Vettel from behind as drivers tried to avoid the incident involving Zhou.
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Russell appeared to be hit from behind at the start and was knocked into Zhou, whose car went flying across a gravel trap and over a tire wall into the retaining fence. The car was skidding on the ‘halo,’ then went airborne.
It was stuck between the tire wall and the fence, delaying efforts to extricate Zhou. Russell, who ran from his car to help Zhou, called it “one of the scariest crashes I’ve ever seen.”
With inputs from PTI
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