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F1 doc: ‘Grosjean's visor had melted'

Doctor Ian Roberts, one on the first of the scene of Romain Grosjean's fiery crash, says such was the blaze that the Haas driver's visor 'in fact melted'. Grosjean crashed heavily on the opening lap of Sunday night's Bahrain Grand Prix, clipping the front right of Daniil Kvyat's AlphaTauri before spearing off the track and into the Armco barrier. Such was the 135mph impact and the angle of it that the Haas VF-20 split in half, bursting into flames. It took Grosjean almost 30 seconds to climb from his car while a marshal did his best to put the flames out and Roberts reached into the blaze to help the Frenchman. Assisting Grosjean towards the medical car while Alan van der Merwe used a fire...
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