Neymar reaches milestone with his 50th league goal for Paris-Saint Germain PAGE 14 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2020 HAMILTon WIns AS GrosJEAN SUrvIves FIrebALL CRAsh Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton steps out of his car after winning the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in the city of Sakhir on Sunday. (AFP) Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton lift’s the winner’s trophy on the podium after the Bahrain F1 GP in the city of Sakhir on Sunday, (AFP) AFP fractured ribs and burns to his to see and it shows the amaz- BAHRAIN F1 GRAND PRIX RESULTS He had posted his thanks on ilton in for a pit stop. SAKHIR (BAHRAIN) hands and feet after his crash ing job F1 and the FIA have 1 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas 57 laps social media after seeing Gros- By lap 30, Hamilton led which was followed by another done for him to walk away from 2 Max Verstappen NED Aston Martin Red Bull Racing + 1.254 jean survive. “I’m so grateful Verstappen by 5.3 seconds and LEWIS Hamilton powered to accident that saw Racing Point something like that.” 3 Alexander Albon THA Aston Martin Red Bull Racing + 8.005 Romain is safe, wow,” he wrote. appeared to be in control as he his record-increasing 95th vic- driver Lance Stroll rescued On a warm, calm and near- 4 Lando Norris GBR McLaren F1 Team + 11.337 “The risk we take is no joke for sought to become the first man tory at the Bahrain Grand Prix from his overturn car. perfect floodlit evening at the 5 Carlos Sainz ESP McLaren F1 Team + 11.787 those of you out there that for- to take a lights-to-flag victory in on Sunday in a race overshad- Lando Norris came home Bahrain International Circuit, 6 Pierre Gasly FRA Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda + 11.942 get that we put our life on the the event’s 11-year history. owed by a horrific crash for fourth ahead of his McLaren where the air temperature sank 7 Daniel Ricciardo AUS Renault F1 Team + 19.368 line for this sport and for what On lap 34, Red Bull gam- Romain Grosjean, from which team-mate Carlos Sainz with from 26 degrees and the track 8 Valtteri Bottas FIN Mercedes AMG Petronas... + 19.680 we love to do. bled by calling in Verstappen the Frenchman escaped rela- Pierre Gasly taking sixth for Al- from 29 at the start, the drama 9 Esteban Ocon FRA Renault F1 Team + 22.803 “This is a reminder to us for his second stop, but a five- tively unscathed. pha Tauri and Renault’s Daniel unfolded with stark violence. 10 Charles Leclerc MON Scuderia Ferrari + 1 lap all. Thankful to the FIA for the second switch to hards undid The newly-crowned seven- Ricciardo seventh. Grosjean’s miraculous 11 Daniil Kvyat RUS Scuderia AlphaTauri Honda + 1 lap massive strides we’ve taken for their under-cut plan. A lap later, time champion came home at Hamilton’s Mercedes team- escape from his high-speed 12 George Russell GBR Williams Racing + 1 lap Romain to walk away from that Hamilton did the same in 1.8 controlled pace under a safety mate Valtteri Bottas finished fireball crash had delayed the 13 Sebastian Vettel GBR Scuderia Ferrari + 1 lap safely.” seconds to return in the lead. car at the finish, followed by eighth, having suffered a punc- action for nearly 90 minutes 14 Nicholas Latifi CAN Williams Racing + 1 lap As Hamilton pulled away, Perez had risen to second, but Max Verstappen and his Red ture, ahead of Esteban Ocon in before Stroll’s upside-down ex- 15 Kimi Raikkonen FIN Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen + 1 lap the luckless Bottas, who picked he gave that place back to Ver- Bull team-mate Alex Albon, the second Renault and Fer- cursion, after contact with Da- 16 Antonio Giovinazzi ITA Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen + 1 lap up a puncture and pitted after stappen when he came in after who profited from an engine rari’s Charles Leclerc. niil Kvyat’s Alpha Tauri at the 17 Kevin Magnussen DEN Haas F1 Team + 1 lap Stroll’s crash, began to fight 37 laps while Bottas pitted for a failure which forced Racing Hamilton’s victory, his 11th re-start ushered in a safety car DNF Sergio Perez MEX BWT Racing Point F1 Team 55 laps back from 16th, having started third time and fell back to 11th. Point’s Sergio Perez into retire- of the season, lifted him 131 intervention. The Russian was DNF Lance Stroll CAN BWT Racing Point F1 Team 3 laps on the front row. With 10 laps to go, Ver- ment with three laps left. points clear of Bottas in the given a 10-second penalty. DNF Romain Grosjean FRA Haas F1 Team 0 laps Verstappen was second, but stappen took a third stop The race was delayed after championship, which he has “I’m ok, just hanging upside grumbling about his Red Bull’s for fresh mediums and a bid Grosjean survived a frighten- won already. down,” said Stroll with uninten- able leap to safety from his blaz- racing lap was finally completed handling. “My car is jump- to grab fastest lap. He soon ing collision with a barrier on However, his initial reaction tional understatement, as he ing Haas on the opening lap. on lap 10 with Hamilton surg- ing around like a kangaroo, I achieved that in 1:32.014 while the opening lap. He was taken was one of relief for Grosjean. confirmed he had escaped inju- After the prolonged initial ing clear again from his third swear,” he told his team before Hamilton cruised 25 seconds to hospital with suspected “It was such a shocking image ry following Grosjean’s remark- safety car intervention, the first Bahrain pole and career 98th. picking up after following Ham- clear in the lead. Formula One safety systems praised after Romain survives in ‘miracle’ AFP MANAMA RACE officials and drivers praised the modern safety sys- tems developed for Formula One on Sunday after Romain Grosjean survived a high- speed crash and fireball blaze on the opening lap of the Bah- rain Grand Prix. Safety and official medical car driver Alan van der Merwe was on the scene within sec- onds as he followed the field after the start of the race and along with chief medical officer Dr Ian Roberts they battled the blaze to save Grosjean’s life. “It’s a miracle that he’s alive,” said 1996 world cham- pion Damon Hill, who was Ay- rton Senna’s team-mate at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix when the Brazilian was killed. Medics attend to Haas F1’s French driver Romain Grosjean after the crash on Sunday. (AFP) Van der Merwe said: “It Fire marshals put out a fire on Haas F1’s French driver Romain Grosjean’s car at the Bahrain International was a big surprise for us as Circuit in the city of Sakhir on Sunday. (Inset) The suvival cell of Grosjean’s car is removed after the crash. (AFP) quick as possible from the fire. “I’m so grateful Romain is back in action following the well, we’ve never seen that It was amazing what they did.” safe,” world champion Lewis restart as Lance Stroll’s Racing much fire in 12 years. “Without just one of those barriers as he braked hard his car’s safety ‘halo’ saved his Hamilton wrote on Twitter. Point flipped over. “Romain started to get things, it could have been a from around 250 km/h (155 life, lifting the barriers above Another red flag “Wow... the risk we take is This time the Canadian’s out of the car himself which very different outcome.” mph), the front part hammer- his head. His Haas team boss Steiner added that Gros- no joke, for those of you out Racing Point made contact was pretty amazing after an Grosjean lost control of ing into the steel guardrails Guenther Steiner said: “When jean, who is set to leave F1 at there that forget that we put our with Kvyat’s Alpha Tauri at accident like that. It was a re- his Haas car after clipping which buckled. you see something like this the the end of the season, had suf- life on the line for this sport and Turn 8, his car coming to a lief to see he was okay. It just the front left wheel of Daniil Grosjean, 34, trapped in only thing you think is ‘I hope fered “light burns on his hands for what we love to do. halt upside down. goes to show all the systems Kvyat’s Alpha Tauri, having his cockpit, flew under the we get lucky’ -- you don’t think and ankles”. “Thankful to the FIA for Stroll was uninjured and we’ve developed worked hand skewed right in the intense barrier as it gave way and as how it happened or whatever. Grosjean was taken to hos- the massive strides we’ve tak- stayed cool inside his car. in hand -- the halos, the bar- battle for position at Turn his car burst into flames, split- “I would like to thank all pital, with reports suggesting en for Romain to walk away “I’m okay, just hanging up- riers, the seatbelts, everything Three on the opening lap. ting in two on impact. the marshals. They did a fan- he had also suffered a suspect- from that safely.” side down,” he told his team all worked as it should.