Netflix get a lot of hassle because they edited this to last way longer than it did, but as someone who has been at a track when it goes wrong every second seems to take forever. They did a fantastic job, in my opinion, of passing that feeling to the viewer.
Exactly. Earlier that same year when Ryan Newman had his near-fatal crash in the Daytona 500, it felt like an eternity before the first rescue crews arrived on the scene. Later I found out the first rescue vehicle arrived at the car within about 20-25 seconds.
My cars engine Blew up on the highway, filling my cockpit with smoke instantly, fire behind my car due to oil hitting the manifold going 100 mph in germany. In reality i stopped in 10 seconds, got my phone and keys out and left my car after roughly 15 seconds but it felt like half an houre
True but having watched for 30+ years its always somehow the crashes that look the worst turn out ok. This one and the kubica crash you go like o shit and silence but the Senna and Jules one for example where such freak accidents that you somehow didn't expect what would happen next. The Senna one many had a bad feeling esp. with what happened the day before but the race picked up after his crash and only much later things where known. This one i remember telling others somehow i felt he was ok since so much fuel was burned in first 20/30 seconds cameras pulled away quickly (most was shown in the replay when he was out). I was watching with my sister and she remembered watching at the zandfoort f1 with my dad (1973 Roger Williamson) until he shielded her from what was happening. That was probably closest to what happened here but with so much less safety protections. You should really watch a reconstruction and interview with the driver to get a good picture on what happened and how much f1 has improved so they can survive crashes like this and the ones that seem end badly are mostly things you can't plan for... much is owed to the designers of these cars.
@@RogerKeulen sorry to be so blunt, but if you look at the stats f1 is not even in the top10 of dangerous sports. Before the mid 70's you would probably seen that many in a year. The sport is amazingly safe given that we have seen several impacts with 50+ g's over the last few years. The freak crashes are now the ones that look ok but something weird happened sometimes its just luck at that point like rubens barrichello in 2009 got very lucky a object hitting him on his helmet didn't kill him... Still its human life that is lost that part i agree with but people like to race in anything that moves it seems to be in our dna so i see this crash as victory of the designers and track support and a bit of luck.
This race is something that will be stuck in my head forever. When I saw it on live TV, I dropped everything. My heart fell right into oblivion. I was sure he'd be dead, and the minutes of waiting until the pictures showed he was well and alive were endless. I still feel that same hurt and disbelief every time I see those images. Every time F1 goes back to that track, I am hurtfully reminded of what happened there. But we are lucky... No, he is lucky to have survived this. He had a million angels with him on that day. And knowing that all the safety devices did their job fills me with confidence for the future. There are still improvements to be made, always are. And they are being made, constantly. Luckily, F1 is at the forefront of driver safety and every little incident gets reviewed to the finest detail to make it all so much safer and better. I am just grateful that Romain is still around. He is a great and incredibly kind person, and a great and very gifted driver.
It's been 2 years since this crash. Saw it live. It took 28 seconds for Grosjean to get out of the car. The halo device, improved race suits, the fire marshals and medical crew saved his life.
@@Twan01 Ofcourse! I was like a statue on the couch for a full minute. It is just that Drive to survive is so dramatised. Hamilton looking at the accident, while at that moment it was already clear Grosjean made it safely out of the car. He and others were waiting when the race would continue. But they had to repair and clean up everything and that took a while as you can remember. The slow motion pictures etcetera. It looks like everybody was frozen for 20 minutes but that was just not the case. 😉
@@larairina5142 in fairness dts has done a lot for f1. Season 3 was definitely too dramatised for my liking by a huge amount of people have gotten into the sport because of it, especially in the USA
@@zenanarch8223 Fair enough. Btw: As you know Haas is an American team. Perhaps an American driver would do the trick. Everything would do the trick instead of Maze(s)pin. Please don't tell me you are from Russia.
Oh man, I saw this live on TV. My heart stood still. Minutes that seemed like hours. And then.....what a relief. He came out of the wreckage. What did anyone care about that race? Nothing!
And to think his head would’ve probably been cut clean off if it wasn’t for the halo on top of the car and he only had burns on his hands and feet. He truly had some guardian angels with em that day for sure. I remember gasping and for a good 10 seconds having my hands over my mouth as I saw it happen live. I immediately thought ‘whoever that was they are not alive anymore!’ And I had very heavy nicki lauda flashbacks.
After this race there was one more race left in the season and Grosjean wanted to race that race, but another driver, Sebastian Vettel, came to visit him in the hospital very early in the morning and advised him not to do it and just take care of himself. He’s racing in Indy car now and there were plans for him to drive in a formula 1 car one last time to end it on a good note. Unfortunately that got canceled because of COVID but I hope it will still happened next year!
The safety features on the car, protective clothing and doctor were the heroes this day. He was in there for 10+ seconds and the doctor wasn't able to approach enough during his first attempt at getting him out. Amazing he only injured his hands.
He was in the fire for about 28 seconds but when watching it life it felt like 6 minutes until they showed him in the medical car. It actually took only about over a minute from crash to footage that he was alive and out of the car.
They cut away from it and didn't show him for like 30 minutes. Torture for everyone, even the personnel at the track had no idea if he was ok for the longest time which put doubt in everyones mind.
Oh my memories were hazy, just rewatched it. It was 2 minutes 30 when Crofty announced he was out of the car, we see him a few minutes after that, and about 10 minutes later we watch the replay of him escaping.
#16 in the Ferrari, Charles LeClarc was freaking out and nearly driven to tears when this happened because he's lost almost all his friends in this sport. His friend Jules Bianchi died in 2014 in a freak accident, and another close friend of his, Anton Hubert died in a crash during the F2 Belgian GP in 2019. So this hit him especially hard. Thankfully Romain got out quick, but it as cutting it close. His Helmet was already pretty torched and he had burned his hands and feet.
I was there at Silverstone with Zhou's incident (on my birthday as a total aside). It was at least 10/15 minutes before the news got out that he was out safe and, largely okay. Only then, did we see exactly how it all unfolded. It's moments like these that remind you just how far safety has come, while simultaneously bringing into focus how far it still has yet to go.
I have seen that live on TV and even after he got out it took me about an hour to feel kinda normal again and get rid of the chills. And now after so much time I again get chills watching this. I'm pretty sure those chills will be there every time I see this for the rest of my life. As said already it took about a minute all together, so they stretched it out a lot in that video, but it also felt like minutes when I was watching that on TV, so I think they actually have the time it felt to take kinda right.
One of the worst crashes in years and a miracle at the same time, showing how much safety has improved over years, i'm still following Grosjean and he is an absolute champ over it, hated to see him go, but god i admire the dude
Drive to survive really does love to toss on a few extra servings of drama lol. They make it seem he was in there for 5 or more minutes while in reality, he was out within a minute, seconds after the medical car arrived (that Mercedes station-car you saw) Ofc, the crash was horrible, like many here in the comments, i was watching it live as well and my heart sank like a stone when that crash happened. I've been a F1 fan for, give or take, some 40 years now and i've seen some of the worst crashes live on tv, from Lauda to Senna and Bianchi... Grosjean's crash was like a combination of Lauda's and Senna's crash. (easily one of the worst crashes in decades, albeit with a happy outcome) The fact he survived that crash tells you all you need to know about how well and safe these cars are made/build, the safety cell that is the cockpit did its protective job, as did the halo which pushed the barrier away from Grosjean's head, the fire retardant clothing (highest grade),... that all prevented serious bodily harm and yes he had several burn wounds yes... on top of his hands where the safety material is thinner, that's it! (fire retardant clothing or not, THAT i call a miracle on its own!) That's all he had after THAT big a crash and that massive fireball, sore all over and 2nd degree burns on his hands.. 10 years earlier he'd been dead. He sadly didnt get to end the season anymore as this was at the end of the season but he went on to Indycars (road courses at first) and went on to take his first Indy victory a few races later. He's a likable type of guy and surviving that accident pretty much has made him a living legend, well.. i think he deserves that title, good guy who beat death in a literal fire fight, yeah.. living legend ;)
I think Netflix, whilst throwing tons of drama at everything, did a great job here in capturing how this moment felt to all of us watching and waiting endless minutes until we finally got confirmation through the images of him - and bringing this feeling of disbelief and a sinking heart to the viewers of the series. They create a lot of drama where there is none, but they are also very great at capturing feelings and moments in their storytelling and displaying them to a broader audience.
@@Menugius i didnt dislike how they did it, just found it funny how much drama they added to it all. (eventho, like you said, it perfectly did portrait the feeling we all were having that very moment, so actually cudos to them for that)
I watched it live, and it was shocking. It took minutes before you knew he was out, but it felt like hours. I didn’t even car of we would be racing again. I almost cried. I’m just happy he came out.
only suffered burns to Hands and Feet. Apart from that, he was ok. Actually showed up the next week and talked to the track marshals and Medical Car team that possibly helped save his life.
I saw this live and I remember seeing Romain's car explode, and in my mind, I instantly thought that the impact was more than enough to kill him outright. I also remember thinking that as horrible as this was, it's a blessing at least that he wouldn't be around to burn to death in that inferno. It wasn't until his feet hit the floor on the track side of the barrier that I realised that I had held my breath the whole time from the moment the car exploded into flames to when he got out safely! 29 seconds, I believe! I was still shaking an hour later. Truly terrifying.
I saw this one live - for a minute I thought I'd seen another F1 driver buy it, I saw Senna's crash live on TV when I was in my late teens, and this one was... wow. When he popped up and just hopped over the fence it was like the guy was a Phoenix, reborn out of fire.
grosjean told that he tried to get out but he couldnt and he gave up, but then he 'saw' his kids telling him to keep trying and he tried again and got out
What you need to understand is those suits the drivers wear are lined with the same material firefighters gear is made from as well as the hoods they wear under their helmets. The suits are designed to withstand constant flames for a few minutes giving the wearer a fighting chance.
So how did he survive? 1) The halo was instrumental at protecting his head from fatal head trauma, Without it he would have been decapitated or suffered severe brain trauma (like Dan Wheldon did ). 2) The fire retardant clothing kept him from being burned alive. It was still very hot out there but he was otherwise protected from the flames for most of the time. After the crash it was determined that his gloves and boots were the weakest point in the fire protections and steps are being made to improve that. His gloves eventually completely burned away and he somehow had to get out of his boots as they were stuck to the pedals to the soles having melted. 3) Everything that broke away from the car took energy out of the crash that would otherwise have affected the driver. it is better for the car to break into a thousand pieces than for the driver to do so . What did happened is that when the rear broke away, it did rupture the main fuel line from the fuel cell to the engine. That caused a spill that eventually caught fire. 4) I see the deforming of the barrier as a good thing. Had something inflexible been there in it's place, Romain Grosjean might not have survived as all the energy that was used to bend that barrier would otherwise have hit him.
Hey from Maneskin to F1, nice to see you again :) Few things about this crash. First i always tear up when i watch this even though i know he is alright and now racing in Indy Car in the States. Netflix overexaggerated the moment because of drama but the reality is that the incident lasted for almost 30 seconds. There are few factors why he managed to get out of the car after burning for 28 seconds. the suit that they wear is extremely light weight but fire resistant to up to 30 seconds, the only thing that happened is that he had hand injuries because his gloves melted on his hands and still recovering from that (they are fire resistant up to 10-15 seconds), will take two more years to try and keep the mobility in the right hand if i recall, he has to move it all the time and still manage to race. Second factor is the HALO the head protection over their head which was introduced in 2018 (same with the aero screen on the INdy car.) which is designed to protect their head in case a tire flies in the air to avoid hits in the head, or a flying car (incident SPA 2018) and in situations like this. If he didnt have the Halo it was a huge risk to get stuck under the barrier and not be able to come out, thanks to the Halo it managed to shred open the barrier and leave a gap to get out and ofcourse avoiding hitting the barrier with his head. That was his second to last race in his F1 career but sadly he missed out on his last race due to the injuries he sustained on his hands. The halo device is maed of some sort of titanium, weighs 27kg and it can withstand weights as near as the weight of an London bus
I can't imagine the fear of his family. I love F1, buy would never have thought this sort of accident could happen anymore. Grosjean escaped with only "minor" injuries to his hands and feet. He announced afterwards that this was the end of his career as a driver. He couldn't ask for a 2nd miracle so his family would now come first.
5:12 No, there is Toto wrong. They are designed to split in two, so there is less Energy on the part, where the driver is. The only strong connection are 12 bolts, with a specified sheering force.
Last time an F1 car had broken in half this way, up til then was nearly 25 years earlier (Martin Brundle, Australia Match 96). No flames on that occasion but this shows the strength of the modern race car survival cell to it's best extent
Watched it live and holy fuck. I've seen many crashes, and I always watch the start of F1 races with my mom as some tradition. This was the first time I thought I saw a man die. My heart sunk. Jeeesh
Grosjean announced few days after the crash that he wkll retire from racing. Fact that his wife and children thought for over 3 minutes that he was dead had such an impact on him. He understood that he was given 2nd chance in life, and didn't want to make the mistake of tempting fate again. Wise man.
After sitting in a decapitated car in fire for what felt like eternity, he then proceeded to get out, jump the barrier and calmly walk away to the ambulance and came of with only a minor ankle injury and burns to his feet and hands.... God was watching over him that day. Its a miracle he even got out ❤😢😊
I started watching Formula One in 1976, as a 13 year old kid. One of the first races I watched on TV was the German GP at the Nurnburgring, when Niki Lauda had his crash. When Grosjean's car caught fire, I'm sure I wasn't the only one whose thought crashed back to 1976. The only thing I thought was: "Lauda got out and went on to race and live a great life." I was holding on to that thought for the 28 seconds Grosjean was in that fire. The way Netflix cut this scene makes it look much longer than those 28 seconds. I know they go for maximum effect but crashes like these, even though Grosjean walked away from it relatively unharmed, will never be 'entertainment' for me. And I truly dislike companies like Netflix for using it that way.
This is from Drive to Survive, who tends to make it even worse than it already was. The time Grosjean was in the car was not as long as they make it look in this highly over dramatic series. Yes, it was horrible, nonetheless! I watched it live and I was screaming. Grosjean is now in Indy car btw. Watch more F1; we have the best season so far this year!! Still 2 more races and we know who will be ghe EC: Lewsi Hamilton or Max Verstappen! Oh and he also didn't say "Fuck"right before he crashed; they edited that in for extra effect....
I watched this live and as a die hard fan I can tell you he was in the flames for around 20-30 seconds but in real time it felt like minutes. So glad he made it out and I agree it was an act of God
It wash the most intense moment for F1 viewers of the last decade. I watched this race whit my uncle and we look to each other he will never come out of this alive . its impossible for grosjean to survive this crash but luckily he did. How its a gods mirakel. No doubt about that. 😮💪👍
There was a longer documentary about it, about the safety feature that saved his life; he had bad burns on his hands, but ultimately made a full recovery.
Grosjean has since moved on to the IndyCar Series where his career has experienced a bit of a renaissance. If all goes well, he will run his first Indy 500 this May (2022). All is good!
@@Zerocool-kb4ejhehe see that while I was typing that error I still was again so shocked that I slipped up. I now watched it and it made me cry... a moment that I will NEVER forget... glad he is ok👏
for a matter of fact the Grosjean went on with his racing career, and went to the ( F1 of Amerika) indy 500 and actually won a race or a few (not sure if the class is right i mentioned and not sure how many he won) but i do know he kept on racing, in a even more dangerous class/league/car
you say, people second guess their career .. well.. after this crash and his recovery, grosjean started in IndyCar. also, this crash was the worst crash we've seen in... ...wow.. a LONG LONG LONG time...
watched this live and to clarify he was in the wreck a matter seconds that fast response of the medical safety car on the opening lap was a life saver you could see how fast the safety car turned up in scene juat because it was going as fast as it could for lap one to clear the track if this accident happened of a different lap the response would of been longer the doctor was on scene and crew fighting the fire and got him out of there it was all done in a matter off seconds 15 to 20 max
Netflix edits for length. In real time he was out of the car and under 30 seconds. But I think Netflix edited this in a good way to wear it gave the viewers the feel of what it's like to be on a racetrack where everything falls silent in the case of a big crash happening and everything seems to slow down, as Sebastian Vettel I said a barriers not supposed to feel like that.
It doesn’t matter how Netflix presented it. When you watched it live it felt like forever anyway - I was at Copse corner at Silverstone when a crash happened smack bang in front of me. And it feels like forever before the guys move/get out. You’re holding your breath,just waiting to see any movement. This made me sick to my stomach. We’d seen Senna. 7:54 The horrific injuries Lauda suffered. But this was something else. He impacted 57G But for the halo he would’ve likely been decapitated/fatally brain injured. The driving suit was a recent upgrade. It gave 30 seconds of ‘fire retardancy’. He was in there 28 seconds. In the end his hands were burned, and a foot he’d had to pull out of a shoe that was stuck by a pedal. His guardian angel worked a damn lot of overtime that day. I was an A&E nurse and I’ve seen so many mangled bodies from waaay less severe accidents than this. To this day I still don’t know how his body survived this. It’s a true miracle. Goes to show just how vital the equipment you have and the gear you wear is.
I thought he was dead for sure. We always watch the races together with my family and as soon as I seen the explosion I told them “he’s dead”. Before Bianchi there hadn’t been a death in f1 for a long time and I thought this was so soon to happen again. Thank fuck he made it. No more discussion about the halo, literally saved his life.
Grojeans interview is also heartbreaking to hear, he talks about how he was about to give up fighting to get out and he saw his kids and his family then he somehow mustered the strength and got out
I do agree they dramatised this quite alot but it does give people who didn't experience it live the closest to how it actually felt for us watching. It was also a way to ensure those who disagreed with the halo now realised how imperative it was to have them
I watched it live also. You really only saw the crash and then silence and you saw him sitting in the car. It was very silent in our house in that time. I thought he was a goner.
And it took me a lot longer then it should have for me to realize the safety car pretty much follows them part of the first lap since that's when shit seems to happen.
Some comments that he was "only" in a burning car for a "minute". Really? Really?! Tell us about your working day. Busy at lunchtime at McDonalds? Difficult spreadsheet to create? Some people! 😂
The halo system saved his life, and he was one of the drivers that voted against having it on the cars. Needless to say he thinks different about it now.
he had a fire suit on that can take 15 seconds before the driver gets burnt plus a flame resitant underwair have seen drivers get out of cars after 15-20 seconds and be fine he wasent in that much danger from the fire and was in 1 of the safest cars in the world
Netflix get a lot of hassle because they edited this to last way longer than it did, but as someone who has been at a track when it goes wrong every second seems to take forever. They did a fantastic job, in my opinion, of passing that feeling to the viewer.
Lol!
Exactly. Earlier that same year when Ryan Newman had his near-fatal crash in the Daytona 500, it felt like an eternity before the first rescue crews arrived on the scene. Later I found out the first rescue vehicle arrived at the car within about 20-25 seconds.
My cars engine Blew up on the highway, filling my cockpit with smoke instantly, fire behind my car due to oil hitting the manifold going 100 mph in germany. In reality i stopped in 10 seconds, got my phone and keys out and left my car after roughly 15 seconds but it felt like half an houre
Exactly, this has a much more realistic feel than if it were edited to the time it actually took
1 min in this flame is not long? ok
I saw this live on television, this was one of the biggest en worst crashes in years. thankfully he got out.
yes i seen it also live
The worst crash since Jules in Suzuka 2014.
True but having watched for 30+ years its always somehow the crashes that look the worst turn out ok. This one and the kubica crash you go like o shit and silence but the Senna and Jules one for example where such freak accidents that you somehow didn't expect what would happen next. The Senna one many had a bad feeling esp. with what happened the day before but the race picked up after his crash and only much later things where known. This one i remember telling others somehow i felt he was ok since so much fuel was burned in first 20/30 seconds cameras pulled away quickly (most was shown in the replay when he was out). I was watching with my sister and she remembered watching at the zandfoort f1 with my dad (1973 Roger Williamson) until he shielded her from what was happening. That was probably closest to what happened here but with so much less safety protections. You should really watch a reconstruction and interview with the driver to get a good picture on what happened and how much f1 has improved so they can survive crashes like this and the ones that seem end badly are mostly things you can't plan for... much is owed to the designers of these cars.
Yes. Saw 3 people die in F1 so far. :-(
@@RogerKeulen sorry to be so blunt, but if you look at the stats f1 is not even in the top10 of dangerous sports. Before the mid 70's you would probably seen that many in a year. The sport is amazingly safe given that we have seen several impacts with 50+ g's over the last few years. The freak crashes are now the ones that look ok but something weird happened sometimes its just luck at that point like rubens barrichello in 2009 got very lucky a object hitting him on his helmet didn't kill him... Still its human life that is lost that part i agree with but people like to race in anything that moves it seems to be in our dna so i see this crash as victory of the designers and track support and a bit of luck.
This race is something that will be stuck in my head forever.
When I saw it on live TV, I dropped everything. My heart fell right into oblivion. I was sure he'd be dead, and the minutes of waiting until the pictures showed he was well and alive were endless.
I still feel that same hurt and disbelief every time I see those images.
Every time F1 goes back to that track, I am hurtfully reminded of what happened there.
But we are lucky... No, he is lucky to have survived this. He had a million angels with him on that day.
And knowing that all the safety devices did their job fills me with confidence for the future. There are still improvements to be made, always are. And they are being made, constantly. Luckily, F1 is at the forefront of driver safety and every little incident gets reviewed to the finest detail to make it all so much safer and better.
I am just grateful that Romain is still around. He is a great and incredibly kind person, and a great and very gifted driver.
Exactly this, you explained it perfectly
Fun fact: he first was against the introduction of the HALO-system, which later (probably) saved his life.
It's been 2 years since this crash. Saw it live. It took 28 seconds for Grosjean to get out of the car. The halo device, improved race suits, the fire marshals and medical crew saved his life.
I saw this live and I just wanna mention that this footage is highly dramatised. In real time he was out within a minute.
Agree. I saw it live too. But reality doesn't sell. Which doesn't mean I wasn't shocked the moment it happened.
@@larairina5142 oh man I shat my pants, I thought I just watched a man die.
@@Twan01 Ofcourse! I was like a statue on the couch for a full minute. It is just that Drive to survive is so dramatised. Hamilton looking at the accident, while at that moment it was already clear Grosjean made it safely out of the car. He and others were waiting when the race would continue. But they had to repair and clean up everything and that took a while as you can remember. The slow motion pictures etcetera. It looks like everybody was frozen for 20 minutes but that was just not the case. 😉
@@larairina5142 in fairness dts has done a lot for f1. Season 3 was definitely too dramatised for my liking by a huge amount of people have gotten into the sport because of it, especially in the USA
@@zenanarch8223 Fair enough. Btw: As you know Haas is an American team.
Perhaps an American driver would do the trick. Everything would do the trick instead of Maze(s)pin. Please don't tell me you are from Russia.
The best thing is that he's driving indycar now, and powning everyone
Laguna Seca he put on a clinic... passed half the field on his last set of tires...
The Phoenix!
@@gosmo4504 that only shows how superior F1 is as he was an average F1 driver at best, definitely not in the top half of the field
@@roberto5455 Aw come lol. To be fair he was racing for HAAS
@@roberto5455 It's all about the teams
Oh man, I saw this live on TV. My heart stood still. Minutes that seemed like hours. And then.....what a relief. He came out of the wreckage. What did anyone care about that race? Nothing!
You can see from the marshalls movement how hot it is, they just can't get any closer.
And to think his head would’ve probably been cut clean off if it wasn’t for the halo on top of the car and he only had burns on his hands and feet. He truly had some guardian angels with em that day for sure. I remember gasping and for a good 10 seconds having my hands over my mouth as I saw it happen live. I immediately thought ‘whoever that was they are not alive anymore!’ And I had very heavy nicki lauda flashbacks.
After this race there was one more race left in the season and Grosjean wanted to race that race, but another driver, Sebastian Vettel, came to visit him in the hospital very early in the morning and advised him not to do it and just take care of himself. He’s racing in Indy car now and there were plans for him to drive in a formula 1 car one last time to end it on a good note. Unfortunately that got canceled because of COVID but I hope it will still happened next year!
The safety features on the car, protective clothing and doctor were the heroes this day. He was in there for 10+ seconds and the doctor wasn't able to approach enough during his first attempt at getting him out. Amazing he only injured his hands.
He was in the fire for about 28 seconds but when watching it life it felt like 6 minutes until they showed him in the medical car. It actually took only about over a minute from crash to footage that he was alive and out of the car.
It felt like an eternity - can't imagine what it felt like for his loved ones.
They cut away from it and didn't show him for like 30 minutes. Torture for everyone, even the personnel at the track had no idea if he was ok for the longest time which put doubt in everyones mind.
Oh my memories were hazy, just rewatched it. It was 2 minutes 30 when Crofty announced he was out of the car, we see him a few minutes after that, and about 10 minutes later we watch the replay of him escaping.
@@Streetw1s3r Yeah I also had a look and it was a bit longer than I thought, too. So we meet in the middle I guess :D
@@maggou90 It felt long though, we can agree there lol
#16 in the Ferrari, Charles LeClarc was freaking out and nearly driven to tears when this happened because he's lost almost all his friends in this sport. His friend Jules Bianchi died in 2014 in a freak accident, and another close friend of his, Anton Hubert died in a crash during the F2 Belgian GP in 2019. So this hit him especially hard. Thankfully Romain got out quick, but it as cutting it close. His Helmet was already pretty torched and he had burned his hands and feet.
Jules was not just Charles friend but his godfather...
It took almost 3 minutes during the live broadcast before they showed anything on screen, they didn't want to live shot him dying.
Which only freaked me out even more. They did the same thing with Zhou's crazy accident last year
I was there at Silverstone with Zhou's incident (on my birthday as a total aside). It was at least 10/15 minutes before the news got out that he was out safe and, largely okay. Only then, did we see exactly how it all unfolded.
It's moments like these that remind you just how far safety has come, while simultaneously bringing into focus how far it still has yet to go.
I have seen that live on TV and even after he got out it took me about an hour to feel kinda normal again and get rid of the chills. And now after so much time I again get chills watching this. I'm pretty sure those chills will be there every time I see this for the rest of my life. As said already it took about a minute all together, so they stretched it out a lot in that video, but it also felt like minutes when I was watching that on TV, so I think they actually have the time it felt to take kinda right.
One of the worst crashes in years and a miracle at the same time, showing how much safety has improved over years, i'm still following Grosjean and he is an absolute champ over it, hated to see him go, but god i admire the dude
Drive to survive really does love to toss on a few extra servings of drama lol.
They make it seem he was in there for 5 or more minutes while in reality, he was out within a minute, seconds after the medical car arrived (that Mercedes station-car you saw)
Ofc, the crash was horrible, like many here in the comments, i was watching it live as well and my heart sank like a stone when that crash happened.
I've been a F1 fan for, give or take, some 40 years now and i've seen some of the worst crashes live on tv, from Lauda to Senna and Bianchi...
Grosjean's crash was like a combination of Lauda's and Senna's crash. (easily one of the worst crashes in decades, albeit with a happy outcome)
The fact he survived that crash tells you all you need to know about how well and safe these cars are made/build, the safety cell that is the cockpit did its protective job, as did the halo which pushed the barrier away from Grosjean's head, the fire retardant clothing (highest grade),... that all prevented serious bodily harm and yes he had several burn wounds yes... on top of his hands where the safety material is thinner, that's it! (fire retardant clothing or not, THAT i call a miracle on its own!)
That's all he had after THAT big a crash and that massive fireball, sore all over and 2nd degree burns on his hands.. 10 years earlier he'd been dead.
He sadly didnt get to end the season anymore as this was at the end of the season but he went on to Indycars (road courses at first) and went on to take his first Indy victory a few races later.
He's a likable type of guy and surviving that accident pretty much has made him a living legend, well.. i think he deserves that title, good guy who beat death in a literal fire fight, yeah.. living legend ;)
I think Netflix, whilst throwing tons of drama at everything, did a great job here in capturing how this moment felt to all of us watching and waiting endless minutes until we finally got confirmation through the images of him - and bringing this feeling of disbelief and a sinking heart to the viewers of the series. They create a lot of drama where there is none, but they are also very great at capturing feelings and moments in their storytelling and displaying them to a broader audience.
@@Menugius i didnt dislike how they did it, just found it funny how much drama they added to it all. (eventho, like you said, it perfectly did portrait the feeling we all were having that very moment, so actually cudos to them for that)
I'd say that 5 years earlier and he would have been dead. The halo saved his life pretty much. Without it he would have suffered fatal head trauma.
@@RichardRenes absolutely, no halo and he'd be no longer with us.
i had that same feeling watching the episode, i rather would have seen a bit less cringe dramatic show, but i understand, it sells.
I watched it live, and it was shocking. It took minutes before you knew he was out, but it felt like hours. I didn’t even car of we would be racing again. I almost cried. I’m just happy he came out.
only suffered burns to Hands and Feet. Apart from that, he was ok. Actually showed up the next week and talked to the track marshals and Medical Car team that possibly helped save his life.
I saw this live and I remember seeing Romain's car explode, and in my mind, I instantly thought that the impact was more than enough to kill him outright. I also remember thinking that as horrible as this was, it's a blessing at least that he wouldn't be around to burn to death in that inferno.
It wasn't until his feet hit the floor on the track side of the barrier that I realised that I had held my breath the whole time from the moment the car exploded into flames to when he got out safely! 29 seconds, I believe!
I was still shaking an hour later. Truly terrifying.
I saw this one live - for a minute I thought I'd seen another F1 driver buy it, I saw Senna's crash live on TV when I was in my late teens, and this one was... wow. When he popped up and just hopped over the fence it was like the guy was a Phoenix, reborn out of fire.
grosjean told that he tried to get out but he couldnt and he gave up, but then he 'saw' his kids telling him to keep trying and he tried again and got out
What you need to understand is those suits the drivers wear are lined with the same material firefighters gear is made from as well as the hoods they wear under their helmets. The suits are designed to withstand constant flames for a few minutes giving the wearer a fighting chance.
I was shook when i saw this live on the television!!! Everybody was so happy when he was alright 🙏🏻
So how did he survive?
1) The halo was instrumental at protecting his head from fatal head trauma, Without it he would have been decapitated or suffered severe brain trauma (like Dan Wheldon did ).
2) The fire retardant clothing kept him from being burned alive. It was still very hot out there but he was otherwise protected from the flames for most of the time. After the crash it was determined that his gloves and boots were the weakest point in the fire protections and steps are being made to improve that. His gloves eventually completely burned away and he somehow had to get out of his boots as they were stuck to the pedals to the soles having melted.
3) Everything that broke away from the car took energy out of the crash that would otherwise have affected the driver. it is better for the car to break into a thousand pieces than for the driver to do so .
What did happened is that when the rear broke away, it did rupture the main fuel line from the fuel cell to the engine. That caused a spill that eventually caught fire.
4) I see the deforming of the barrier as a good thing. Had something inflexible been there in it's place, Romain Grosjean might not have survived as all the energy that was used to bend that barrier would otherwise have hit him.
Finally! Some critical thinking. So, not a miracle, but science, technology and human beings not giving up.
They edited it so it looked like he was in there for minutes but it was only like 30 secs. Which is still a long time to be in fire.
I think the edit captured how we felt watching it live, because we didn’t know for 3 minutes what had happened and whether he was okay or not.
This was his last race in F1 (because of the crash. Otherwise he would've had one or two more races). He's now racing in IndyCar
I will never forget seeing that happening, I was so much in shock. Thank God he survived, its unbelievable that he got out.
The shot of him walking out the fire is iconic as fuck so glad he was ok what a guy
This is why he has the nickname "The Phoenix" in IndyCar
He must have had a big guardian Angel on his shoulder, glad he came out so well.
Hey from Maneskin to F1, nice to see you again :)
Few things about this crash. First i always tear up when i watch this even though i know he is alright and now racing in Indy Car in the States. Netflix overexaggerated the moment because of drama but the reality is that the incident lasted for almost 30 seconds. There are few factors why he managed to get out of the car after burning for 28 seconds. the suit that they wear is extremely light weight but fire resistant to up to 30 seconds, the only thing that happened is that he had hand injuries because his gloves melted on his hands and still recovering from that (they are fire resistant up to 10-15 seconds), will take two more years to try and keep the mobility in the right hand if i recall, he has to move it all the time and still manage to race. Second factor is the HALO the head protection over their head which was introduced in 2018 (same with the aero screen on the INdy car.) which is designed to protect their head in case a tire flies in the air to avoid hits in the head, or a flying car (incident SPA 2018) and in situations like this. If he didnt have the Halo it was a huge risk to get stuck under the barrier and not be able to come out, thanks to the Halo it managed to shred open the barrier and leave a gap to get out and ofcourse avoiding hitting the barrier with his head. That was his second to last race in his F1 career but sadly he missed out on his last race due to the injuries he sustained on his hands. The halo device is maed of some sort of titanium, weighs 27kg and it can withstand weights as near as the weight of an London bus
I can't imagine the fear of his family. I love F1, buy would never have thought this sort of accident could happen anymore. Grosjean escaped with only "minor" injuries to his hands and feet. He announced afterwards that this was the end of his career as a driver. He couldn't ask for a 2nd miracle so his family would now come first.
I not know how only Netflix got ahold of that slow-mo shot of him getting out, but it is astonishing.
5:12 No, there is Toto wrong.
They are designed to split in two, so there is less Energy on the part, where the driver is.
The only strong connection are 12 bolts, with a specified sheering force.
Exactly. Toto speaking bullshit for the camera again. The car is absolutely meant to split in two to dissipate energy in a crash like this.
@@Dusto9 I think, he just didn't know that^^
Netflix dragged this out to the max. But the actual time Romain was in the burning car was 29 seconds. He drives Indycar now.
You don't fight fuel fires with water it just makes it worse. Burning magnesium will turn water into hydrogen and oxygen gas which burns real good .
You should watch the interview Romain did a week later with Sky Sports F1. How calmly he talks us through those 30 seconds. It’s amazing to listen to.
Last time an F1 car had broken in half this way, up til then was nearly 25 years earlier (Martin Brundle, Australia Match 96). No flames on that occasion but this shows the strength of the modern race car survival cell to it's best extent
We have Jackie Stewart back in the 60's to thank for increasing safety. Something new is learned with every crash
Another one is the Kenny Bräck crash.. incredible to watch...
Watched it live and holy fuck. I've seen many crashes, and I always watch the start of F1 races with my mom as some tradition. This was the first time I thought I saw a man die. My heart sunk. Jeeesh
Grosjean announced few days after the crash that he wkll retire from racing. Fact that his wife and children thought for over 3 minutes that he was dead had such an impact on him. He understood that he was given 2nd chance in life, and didn't want to make the mistake of tempting fate again. Wise man.
He still races today
He's in indy car racing with andretti sport next year
I have dubbed Grosjean "T-1000."
After sitting in a decapitated car in fire for what felt like eternity, he then proceeded to get out, jump the barrier and calmly walk away to the ambulance and came of with only a minor ankle injury and burns to his feet and hands.... God was watching over him that day. Its a miracle he even got out ❤😢😊
Still makes me cry.. saw it live.. this was just seconds but wow so long seconds!!
He came out of those flames like a Phenix.
I started watching Formula One in 1976, as a 13 year old kid. One of the first races I watched on TV was the German GP at the Nurnburgring, when Niki Lauda had his crash.
When Grosjean's car caught fire, I'm sure I wasn't the only one whose thought crashed back to 1976. The only thing I thought was: "Lauda got out and went on to race and live a great life." I was holding on to that thought for the 28 seconds Grosjean was in that fire.
The way Netflix cut this scene makes it look much longer than those 28 seconds. I know they go for maximum effect but crashes like these, even though Grosjean walked away from it relatively unharmed, will never be 'entertainment' for me. And I truly dislike companies like Netflix for using it that way.
The "fuck." Before he hits the wall always gets me lol
I saw it as well live on tv, but glad that he survived it!
Watched this live and it was the longest 28 seconds of my life
This is from Drive to Survive, who tends to make it even worse than it already was. The time Grosjean was in the car was not as long as they make it look in this highly over dramatic series. Yes, it was horrible, nonetheless! I watched it live and I was screaming. Grosjean is now in Indy car btw. Watch more F1; we have the best season so far this year!! Still 2 more races and we know who will be ghe EC: Lewsi Hamilton or Max Verstappen!
Oh and he also didn't say "Fuck"right before he crashed; they edited that in for extra effect....
They captured what it felt like though... Watching it on D2S I get the same worried antsiness as I got watching it live. It was horrifying.
I watched this live and as a die hard fan I can tell you he was in the flames for around 20-30 seconds but in real time it felt like minutes. So glad he made it out and I agree it was an act of God
I remember watching this in my room and immediately sprinting down to the livingroom screaming and continued watching there with my dad
It wash the most intense moment for F1 viewers of the last decade. I watched this race whit my uncle and we look to each other he will never come out of this alive . its impossible for grosjean to survive this crash but luckily he did. How its a gods mirakel. No doubt about that. 😮💪👍
The halo and him not falling unconscious saved him.
I love the fact that not even a year past and he was in Indy car kicking ass
The Dr that helped/tried to pull him out of the fire sustained some light burns aswell.
watched it live short after that i went for a walk cause i cant resist that pressure i had
There was a longer documentary about it, about the safety feature that saved his life; he had bad burns on his hands, but ultimately made a full recovery.
And if it didn't have the Halo (Which Grosjean was against when introduced) would have died.
This is why his nickname now is The Phoenix.
Grosjean has since moved on to the IndyCar Series where his career has experienced a bit of a renaissance. If all goes well, he will run his first Indy 500 this May (2022). All is good!
I still get goosebumps and chills seeing this. Saw it live. Scared the hell out of me😭😭. But glad he is ok. He is in Nescar now.
No ..Indycar 😉 even more dangerous 😜
@@Zerocool-kb4ejhehe see that while I was typing that error I still was again so shocked that I slipped up. I now watched it and it made me cry... a moment that I will NEVER forget... glad he is ok👏
I have never been scared this much
This was really unbelievable how he got out and survived
V8 Supercars Fireball at Barbagello is one to watch next. Huge Fireball, By Supercars
for a matter of fact the Grosjean went on with his racing career, and went to the ( F1 of Amerika) indy 500 and actually won a race or a few (not sure if the class is right i mentioned and not sure how many he won) but i do know he kept on racing, in a even more dangerous class/league/car
Only Netflix could drag out 28 seconds to 8 minutes
always amazing content man keep it up!!
the racing suit must have priceless
you say, people second guess their career .. well.. after this crash and his recovery, grosjean started in IndyCar. also, this crash was the worst crash we've seen in... ...wow.. a LONG LONG LONG time...
watched this live and to clarify he was in the wreck a matter seconds that fast response of the medical safety car on the opening lap was a life saver you could see how fast the safety car turned up in scene juat because it was going as fast as it could for lap one to clear the track if this accident happened of a different lap the response would of been longer the doctor was on scene and crew fighting the fire and got him out of there it was all done in a matter off seconds 15 to 20 max
Netflix edits for length. In real time he was out of the car and under 30 seconds. But I think Netflix edited this in a good way to wear it gave the viewers the feel of what it's like to be on a racetrack where everything falls silent in the case of a big crash happening and everything seems to slow down, as Sebastian Vettel I said a barriers not supposed to feel like that.
Grosjean is now racing in Indycar. His fans nicknamed him “Phoenix”.
Always get a lump in my throat watching this
My dude, you sound like youre from new orleans. 🤣 Id be surprised if you werent. Anyway, great reaction!
It doesn’t matter how Netflix presented it. When you watched it live it felt like forever anyway - I was at Copse corner at Silverstone when a crash happened smack bang in front of me. And it feels like forever before the guys move/get out. You’re holding your breath,just waiting to see any movement.
This made me sick to my stomach. We’d seen Senna. 7:54 The horrific injuries Lauda suffered.
But this was something else.
He impacted 57G
But for the halo he would’ve likely been decapitated/fatally brain injured.
The driving suit was a recent upgrade. It gave 30 seconds of ‘fire retardancy’. He was in there 28 seconds.
In the end his hands were burned, and a foot he’d had to pull out of a shoe that was stuck by a pedal.
His guardian angel worked a damn lot of overtime that day.
I was an A&E nurse and I’ve seen so many mangled bodies from waaay less severe accidents than this.
To this day I still don’t know how his body survived this. It’s a true miracle.
Goes to show just how vital the equipment you have and the gear you wear is.
He was inside the flames for 27 seconds
I thought he was dead for sure. We always watch the races together with my family and as soon as I seen the explosion I told them “he’s dead”. Before Bianchi there hadn’t been a death in f1 for a long time and I thought this was so soon to happen again. Thank fuck he made it. No more discussion about the halo, literally saved his life.
i saw this live on TV aswell
Grojeans interview is also heartbreaking to hear, he talks about how he was about to give up fighting to get out and he saw his kids and his family then he somehow mustered the strength and got out
I do agree they dramatised this quite alot but it does give people who didn't experience it live the closest to how it actually felt for us watching. It was also a way to ensure those who disagreed with the halo now realised how imperative it was to have them
Looks horrific, but in the end he was out after about 28 seconds, 28 long seconds, but in this video it seems like 5 minutes!
This was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen on live tv I thought for sure I’d just seen someone die
Still racing. Impressive racing too.
2:27 you can see him trying to get out of you look through the hole in the guardrail
I watched it live also. You really only saw the crash and then silence and you saw him sitting in the car. It was very silent in our house in that time. I thought he was a goner.
I honestly don't fathom how someone can survive that, let alone WALK away with just a few bruises and a couple of burns.
He is back to racing he has been racing in indycar this year
Can you react to the crash from Antoine Hubert? Probably one of the saddest moments in f1 history
Granted he was in there in a long time, and it was a big one , but remember it was filmed by Drive to Survive so its been overdramatised to the max
realised 3 weeks later he had a broken knee haha
best thing is: hes racing full time in indycar now ;)
Just so you know. The race was restarted not too long after that happened. Drivers had to do it again just minutes after one of them almost died
seeing this live was horible we all thought he was burning alive
And it took me a lot longer then it should have for me to realize the safety car pretty much follows them part of the first lap since that's when shit seems to happen.
Some comments that he was "only" in a burning car for a "minute". Really? Really?! Tell us about your working day. Busy at lunchtime at McDonalds? Difficult spreadsheet to create? Some people! 😂
The halo system saved his life, and he was one of the drivers that voted against having it on the cars. Needless to say he thinks different about it now.
Yeah that was intense...
He is now doing pretty good in indicar.
I wuld have continued in F-1 if he culd, but his contract expired.
he had a fire suit on that can take 15 seconds before the driver gets burnt plus a flame resitant underwair have seen drivers get out of cars after 15-20 seconds and be fine he wasent in that much danger from the fire and was in 1 of the safest cars in the world
Race suit could take 20 sec. Glows 10 sec. And he was extremely lucky to survive this crash. You obviously don’t know much about a fire like this