This race was an eleven out of ten. Happy Zhou and Albon are ok. For checking on the Chinese driver, George is a class act. Carlos Sainz is the best strategist at Ferrari. Checo delivered when needed.

@The Legacy They changed the fuel for saftey reasons, they can see fuel fires

@Simon Osman Not necessarily. Racing fuel fires are invisible, so if he was the first one on seeing the vehicle was on fire, he could have made a difference. It was lucky for Zhou that there was no fire, since even the marshalls had trouble getting him out.

@Craig Robertson wheel was there i think, just the tyre gone. so well balanced it would have nursed back to the pits.

Only downside is that Goattifi didn’t score points

For those who couldn’t watch the race, the crash wasn’t gaslys fault like this video makes it seem. Latifi went through Zhou and Russel and gasly looked to do the same since he had a better start than both of them. Russel wasn’t expecting Gasly to come through so quickly and closed the gap between him and Zhou, hitting Gasly which is why he went into Zhou hard enough to flip him. Gasly was sandwiched, but blame can’t be put too hard on George because he checked his mirrors before Gasly came out from behind Zhou and thought it was clear to come over.

Carlos what should we do for the Charles strategy

@Michael Pickles Gasly and Seb then lol as if Seb didn't give him enough room. Was a good race today though and very strict on track limits, gutted for Sainz that was a nasty let go of the engine i thought for a moment there it is was going to roll back onto he track as he was trying to get of it on fire.

@Michael Pickles Knew you'd say that but we can both see its completely different Lewis has his nose past Gasly before he brakes. Gasly just loves finding them Mercs at the moment

@Apocalyptic Weasel Good Answer. Funny how in the sprint race, Gasley repeated Russell's move. Is Lewis at fault for spinning Gasly now?

@Michael Pickles Gaslys fault my opinion which i am allowed to not just my opinion others feel the same. Russell's fault your opinion. It matters not any more its gone water under the bridge agree to disagree and move on, theres another race about to start soon and it will be someone elses fault

The way Zhou's car jumped over the tyre barrier was something like Barrichello in Imola's 94 Friday... The car should never ever hit above the barrier... That was as scary as Grojean's fireball... I feared for this young boy's life for a while...

@Austin Ogonoski We're soft because many of us were alive when Senna and some other famous F1 drivers passed away. If not for the Halo and other advancements since the 90's, Zhou would be dead, guaranteed. What's freakish about racing is that accidents that look simple and survivable can actually be the most dangerous. We almost lost Hamilton last year when Verstappen's rear tire literally landed on his head. Without the halo in that case, his neck would have been crushed. As it was, his neck was quite sore just from the glancing hit before the halo took the load.

@Purwanti Allan with waaaay less G force on impact.. I'd rather say it's like Alonso's crash (2014?) in Australia..

@Giacomo Neri After Monza 1978, Paletti's accident was the next one, (fire related), then De Angelis' fatal test if I'm not wrong. (Theres is an accurate description on Peterson accident (aftermath), because he survived (and had been conscious!) and passed away due to the large amount of surgeries the doctors carried out on him...). I think it's on "his" website, a memoirs by Prof. Sid Watkins. Yeah, Zhou (and especially Grosjean ) was extremely lucky... AB

@Thanasis Dakakis I knew they'd do it

@Mr Gingstronout Who are you replying to?

The barrier at the particular turn have to be re-designed to not catch cars in a crack like that. If Zhou's car bursts into a fireball like Grojean's, there's no way he could get out in time.

Thoughts of Le Mans 1955.

@Shiro The Wolf it burnt Grojean in a matter of seconds. It took many many minutes and 10+ people's help Zhou get out. He would've been burnt to a crisp there.

@KingJohnMichael i am moving up and down side 2 side like a rollercoaster.

This comment thread is a roller-coaster

@alveolate hermeneutist What shot him up and flipped him around was the sudden change from Gavel to the hard edge of the Tarmac just before the barrier.

Let me just say this, the magnitude of the crashes, and the fact that all drivers are ok and fit to race again, can we not ignore how much has been done in the name of safety? The Halo, the cockpit, I bet the F1 car not only is the fastest car in the world, it's probably the safest too.

@Lost Alone no it didnt. The role over hoop desintegrated in seconds.

@Jack near impossible ? Why is everyone always in the need to hyperbolize evey fucking word they say

No one is ignorimg it. Its literally everything anyone talks about

Roll hoop doing a lot of work - the FIA beefed up the requirements after Pedro Diniz rolled 2.5 times at Nürburgring 1999 (stopping upside down) - his roll hoop failed on the second impact, and it was only a secondary safety feature unique to his Sauber that meant the car's weight didn't end on his head/neck.

One thing that I've not seen mentioned a lot is the fact that a photographer was behind that catch fencing. If that didn't do its job. We could have seen something so much worse. The technology of f1 has come so far. But so has the technology around the track too. Glad all are okay

@Ali jahan yep. No halo, 30 lives lost.

glad the photographer was safe, but gotta mention he got an amazing shot of the car sliding and showing how necessary the halo is.

Look closer, the photographers were in front of the fence, right where Zhou's car landed. It's a miracle that once Zhou started rolling over all of them decided to run aside instead of ducking and hoping the car would stop in front of the barriers.

@Henry High Davey Allison?? I wonder where he is in 2022, Henry High. 🙏

@Alba Alba, have u watched the final episode of Nijigasaki Anime Season 2 last week? Glad i watched that one. It was legendary. 🙏👍

The Zhou accident also reminds me of the one Hulkenberg had, where Hulkenberg was heard saying over the radio "Get me out here guys! I'm hanging here like a cow!". Scary moment for sure because this time we didn't get to hear any radio from Zhou even tho we all understand that he was trapped between the fence and the barrier. Binotto uses too many "maybe" for his explanation. It's amazing how consistently Ferrari botches their strategy for Charles and Carlos. It's that Carlos is much more vocal in claiming his own strategy to follow.

@Avenue I do agree with you. Seeing life saving rescues are definitely educational, but the TV at the time has to make sure first that the driver is OK. This is because too many people take too much delight in seeing others suffer (Very unfortunate and sucks!) Further, the saving is better broadcast in a documentary afterwards. The TV director is normally more occupied with the race. (After the red flag... Eventually...) That said, this is solely my opinion, I might be wrong. *I thought I was wrong only once in my life before. Turns out I was mistaken.*

@Elyes Sellami they valued only on winning.

@Avenue And my comment was the answer to that also.

@Avenue Senna's death was in the 90s, a time where driver life and safety wasn't as valued as today.

@Elyes Sellami now adays we get to watch police shootings from body cam, but we can't see how guardian angels save lives... kinda sad world we live in heck we even saw Senna's death

First I was honestly getting a little annoyed that they wouldn't show anything. Then I saw the crash replay and I understood why. That was terrifying. So soooooo happy that he is OK. What an absolutely crazy race.

@Surchaufeur they did not show the last 20 major crashes. Even Max last year. Not everything is fucking political.

@Broccoly123 go on 4chan or pr0gramm if you want to satisfy your needs. Pretty understandable that they dont want to show someone potentially dying.

@Purwanti Allan yep. Ever since Senna Ratzenberger's fatal crashes.

@Purwanti Allan It was Russell.

@Purwanti Allan i watched it.

One of my favorite parts was mick fighting max at the end. He showed caution and control amd grit. That's what I been waiting to see from him. Come on mick!

@Robin Ou ye right, you are correct. The steering and everything was perfect. He said it himself. Kappa

@brotinger_1 You know nothing about his car, you have no data or such info.. Stop speculating bullcrap.

@8thlvlMage yep. Thats already real.

@Purwanti Allan Mick got points because nearly a third of the grid didn't make it to the end. I'm happy for him but let's be real lol.

@soundscape26 Mick Schumacher and Mia Taylor both equally deserved to be driver of the day.

Those protests are so out of control, absolute idiots. So thankful Zhou is okay. It was a great race after that a lot of entertainment and great hard racing that we love to see 👏🏼

@KingJohnMichael The climate is always changing - isn't it called weather? Arctic ice extent, has last few years especially this year, recovered well from alarming declines. I don't know what to think, all this alarmism sounds like a scam to make energy expensive.

@KingJohnMichael Let's genuinely hope so and fusion isn't another 20 years off. Presumably we'll get there some day and we're closer than ever but we've been here before thinking fusion has almost been cracked. Positive vibes ay.

@KingJohnMichael or 2025.

@Look Inverted fusion energy It's coming in the next 15 years

the racing at the end was actually so good I almost forgot about the crash. but it was cool to see all the drivers bring it up after the race before talking about themselves

Really glad Zhou walked without fine. But those protesters’ intention, sitting in middle track is absolutely dangerous to them and the drivers.

@lenni004001 Gasly attempted murder on Zhou.

Its atempted murder in my eyes

@Mike z he did check, Gasly was just quite far back and given that lots of other cars ahead of him had bad starts he probably didn't think his was as bad as it was. You can see his onboard he does check properly, Gasly was quite a way back and George probably didn't anticipate someone sticking their nose into what was clearly a closing gap. George was already veering left when Gasly tried to get through. None of this matters anyway. The only thing that does is that everyone walked away unharmed from what was a horrific accident

@Ryan Ford Russel had a really poor start and by so he should have been expecting other drivers would be going around him left right and centre and by so he should have avoided doing such moves, and triple checking his mirrors before he does any

The way he was stuck in the car made me realize how lucky Zhou was the car didnt burst into flames

@BlueBe4m there didn't appear to be the same kind of loading here as with grosjean fire ball.

He was very lucky but we also have to thank the FIA for redesigning the fuel tanks in a way they won’t explode like in Grosjean’s incident for this year’s regulations

True, at the start the fuel tanks are brimmed making a burst more likely, aka Grosjean fire crash.

Grosjean's crash was as close as you can get to just flooring it and aiming at a wall. It was horrendous... But Romain is still racing Indycars today. The combination of being trapped and also on fire is a problem, but it will always be a balance. The harness (for example) is there to stop drivers being ejected to their certain death. Making it so that drivers always stay in the car when we want them to, but can instantly leave when we done, is a supreme engineering challenge.

@Quentin Watt Tutorials 👍👍👍

For those who didnt see it, the F2 crash at the weekend as well was just as scary. These historic tracks are going to have to reconsider their run offs and kerv designs give how much air these modern cars seem to get at times.

@Martyn - I saw it and despite having hated the halo I am now convinced that it is saving lives. Without the halo, Nissany would have lost his head, It really is that simple.

That accident was really horrific, especially after they didn't show anything for so long. Fortunately both are okay. I wouldn't have mind if those protesting idiots would have been overrun. Nobody needs those people who don't know what they are doing, how they waste their time and endanger others out of pure egoism.

Zhou and the people behind that fence to be OK.

Its the scariest crash this year. Im glad Zhou is okay.

Yep. I also saw Lanzhu Zhong crying on the onboard radio during red flag.

Charles Leclerc got screwed again by Mattia Binotto. It's always the same old song at Ferrari. They sign a talented driver, field a decent car and then overthink themselves into 2nd Place, every time. The guidelines of tire strategy are pretty straightforward and will always pay off in the long run instead of taking unnecessary gambles like Ferrari always does every race and it bites them in the ass every time and they NEVER learn! The ONLY reason Shuey won Championships at Ferrari was because he and Jean Todt and Ross Brawn stood as a united front against the Ferrari front office and did what they pleased. After that, it's been back to being the sh*tshow it was before they took over.

Sad but true

@Josh Allen the GOAT At the restart Checo easily passed Lewis. Lewis was able to get back because of Checo's fight with Charles. Then he overtook him again within the next few curves. With cold hard tires it would have been nearly impossible to defend against a car with new softs, just like what happened to Charles against Sainz. During the whole race Carlos was slower than Charles, but at the restart, Carlos had no problem passing and leaving Charles way behind.

@Emanuel T He would not have been easy pickings, even Charles on much older tires and some damage was not easy pickings. It took them going three wide and pushing each other around in order for either of them to get past Charles. And even after that Charles was able to fight back and hold off Lewis for another 4 laps or so. Lewis had the fastest car all race, would have had fresher tires and no damage. No way he'd have been easy pickings.

@Josh Allen the GOAT Yeah, but you mentioned earlier that he was running well on mediums and had both Frrrari drivers pitted he would have stayed out. Had he stayed out and both Ferraris and the Red Bull pitted for softs, Lewis would have been easy pickings for all of them. It took the hards 4 - 5 laps to get in optimal temperature. Most probably he would have ended 4th, with Alonso and Norris close behind on softs too.

@Emanuel T They were all on hards. Lewis had pitted 7 laps before the SC came out and Charles/Carlos had pitted 7 or 8 laps prior to that.

Sir Lewis coming out fully in support of the protestors during the race before having to clarify not to run onto a live racetrack *after the race* was a surprisingly shit take even for him.

@Spikes Dad I guess grumpy old man is lovable than a celeb I guess

@Mylo2004 what was kimi’s excuse for being so arrogant? That was true grumpy old man.

@Richard Ashton why pay tax? Whats the point?

I was literally 15 feet in front of the fence it happened! Very scary stuff

I had a similar experience in the 70's in Spain, standing on top of a bus with a group of people. I watched Carlos Reuteman lose it and get flipped into the air by the curb. But for the last bit of catch fencing holding, it would have wiped us all out. Carlos was a bit surprised too ...

Honestly, when I saw the crash, I was more worried for the spectators. Yes, there is a catch fence, but if a car can get that high, debris can get even higher. Happy to see both Zhou and the people behind that fence to be OK.

As a Ferrari fan. I always was concerned about them putting a competitive car on the track. Now it seems their race strategies and decisions are actually a bigger concern. They've had this problem ever since Schumi retired from the team. Great race overall. Real happy for Guanyus overall well being.

They should replace everyone who was responsible for strategy decisions in the last 5 years

@Mišo Rodziňák but the strategists are foreigners, the c. S. Is inaki irrueda, Spanish.

@Rory Keegan ehm.. The chief strategist in Ferrari is Spanish, not Italian so.. I think is the level of the strategists That is too low, not the Country of origin . As I've read somewhere else Charles has to learn to be tougher With the pit wall and Even more learn (which is difficult, if not innate) to be his own strategist. Otherwise I see it very hard!

Do not drink wine! The championship is ours! Red bull p1 verstappen p1 checo p2 shut up!

@Frank Shaffer But they were winning championships though. They ain't doing nothing now

Yesterday we had the race of the season, one of the best in the last decade arguably, and possibly one of the best British GPs ever. The racing was spectacular and clean, with drama, excitement, competition between many teams and awesome performances. Hamilton fans, Sainz fans, Checo fans and fans of all of their teams (and others) had a lot to cheer for. Yet it could have easily been one of the worst days ever in F1, had it not been for safety devices. Zhou's car, survival cell and most importantly halo protected him from (and I know this is graphic to say) the worst. The catch fence also prevented potential severe injuries and death for the people in the grandstand right next to the track. This is truly a success for safety in modern F1. We were at the track that day, sat at club corner. We could see the chaos of the start, but the dust prevented us from viewing what actually happened. So radio silence for so long and no replays as per procedures in potentially fatal incidents, as well as several ambulances coming onto the track was truly terrifying. After the race while walking the track, you could see how far it is from the corner to the barrier and fence, and it must be like 100-200m. It seems an absurd distance for a car to travel on its roof and still carry enough speed to go over the tyre wall, which shows just how high stakes and dangerous motorsport is, and how terrifying it must be as a driver when it goes wrong. To the marshalls, ambulance teams, safety coordinators, designers of the safety devices in modern F1, whoever designed the catch fence and anyone else involved in protecting a driver and many fans from death, thank you! There's many people behind the scenes and at races who allow ome of the most spectacularly awesome spectacles in the world (F1 and motorsport) to go ahead with as little chance for severe accidents as possible. Those people are awesome. If you are in any way involved in any these things, whether you are a marshall at your local racetrack, medical team, or designer of safety devices, you do pretty awesome things for motorsport and you are truly a hero.

Too bad the British fans were a global embarrassment with their harrassment and jeering after qualifying. Stay classy Britain

It's not graphic to say "the worst." Zhou would have died without all the safety features, which is why they exist.

Amazing Checo came back from last to 2nd. I’m also surprised how competitive Leclerc’s pace was with the front wing damage he had.

@theonlylolking Hamilton literally asked to retire the car this season.

@theonlylolking Your joking right ? Hamilton never complains ? He's always whining constantly.

@theonlylolking bruh, verstappen’s car wasn’t just damaged, it was damn near broken with all the floor damage he had. I love how you mention Hamilton as if he doesn’t cry all the time about tires and such. Hamilton has put in some great performances with damage as well, but to try to compare Verstappen’s damage from this race or basically any other race this season is asinine

@theonlylolking His main source of downforce was damaged. He was going as fast as his car would let him. Being inside the car there's no way to know what's damaged, and if you're the one being encouraged to blast around the track at 190mph while your car is shaking you're gonna be complaining too.

It reminded me of Hamilton last year. Verstappen gets any little damage and he keeps complaining. Just deal with it and keep pushing through like what Leclerc and Hamilton have shown to do in the past two years.

Russell helping out with the rescue of zhou really earned my respect for him. Really glad to see zhou checked out fine.

@jsquared1013 in what world?

@lukas ralys the previous driver had enough momentum to pass both cars completely, if the squeeze hadn't happened Gasly might have been ahead of both cars before turn-in.

@Purwanti Allan cry more.......fia is dancing ....

@Little Wing Jhendrix Russell should be fined for this.

@lukas ralys i think 49.

about the place the alfa car got stuck. definitely something to learn. with full tank, if it had caught on fire there was no way to get zhou out of there in time. definitely something to learn.

@Timbraska there’s no way for anyone to get in that small piece quick enough

@Jason Walton Apart from the single one time yes. In all the other cases of the Power Unit causing the fire you can easily extinguish it fast enough to not have the driver in danger. Unless you mean cars from the 90s or cars that caught fire when being refueled.

@Timbraska you mean apart from all the times when they have caught fire?

@Timbraska except when they do

Cars don't just catch on fire. But if he needed lifesaving procedures because of an injury he could have gotten after that crash that's when you would need to get to him fast.

Vettel showed a V10 engine with carbon neutral emissions and they still think it's more productive to invade a piece of tarmac with vehicles going upwards of 250kmh? Baffling.

@Lucee Absolutely. To anyone who'd think it's carbon neutral: you need more petrol to grow the crops (fertilizers + anti-pest) for that ethanol than what quantity it replaces. And if all cars were to be fitted so, we wouldn't have enough of the whole planet's surface to grow said crops. It's not about being a tree-hugger, but about manipulation. Greenwashing at its finest.

@paper plane best part is they are using the internet One of the biggest energy eater on the planet

@Bill Tozer 🙄

@Ian Elliot just like you comment just wasted a bunch of resources.

@Lucee and you point is? Let's go back to the 1600s?

Whilst I’m glad Zhou is safe, I am intrigued by the view of the Alphas floor. Am I the only person who thinks it looks rather simple? Considering who much the floor is a part of the new regulations I was expecting “more”? Not sure if my expectations were too high or what

“Zhou’s car was tipped when Pierre Gasly looked for a gap between him and George Russels car..” I don’t quite agree here. It was a big time racing (start) accident. Gasly didn’t look for a gap, if anything he tried avoiding an accident by slowing down when he was squeezed because of Russel steering slightly to the left. I think, although totally not on purpose, Russel set this whole thing in motion by just slightly going to the left. It just shows how tiny the margin for errors can be. And also how lucky we are to have Zhou (and the photographers and spectators) walk away after this potentially devastating accident.

Screenshot makes it look like Gasly diving into a tiny gap. and narrative says "contact turned Russel's car left" I'd say more like Russel moved to left rapidly while Gasly was there, not saying it as a mistake or anything. It's just, it was not like George was going straight and Gasly made him move left by the contact.

@Marshall C agree to disagree, for me it was just a racing incident, i have not heard of an action from stewards or fia to apportion blame, so why should you?

@Marshall C agree 100% with your assessment on both your comments!

@eggy1962 what even are you saying... it wasn't over 20 feet that he moved over. When you're going 150 mph, it takes a few hundred feet and only a second to move that far over. Unless you're saying his steering column was broken, there is literally no reason to look at the wheel for him turning left. It's obvious from the aerial camera view that his car moved left from its original line. Zhou was going straight and Gasley went for the hole. The hole disappeared somehow, and Russel was the only other car who could have shut the door. He was so far to the inside of T1 that he would have obliterated the apex of the turn so he wanted to move outside to get a better approach angle. He even looked out his left mirror and saw Gasley, but he either underestimated Gasley's approach speed or overestimated the distance between them (namely that there was noneand their tires were overlapping)

@Rohan Gaglani assalamualaikum Rohan. 🙏

Watch the replay from russel camera, there is barely any steering input left, nothing deliberate to put blame,

And just a few hours before this race, the halo saved driver Nissany in Formula 2 from certain death in another spectacular crash. Two in one day, just imagine this day without the halo. Holy..

@Stephen Payne any objective look at the forces and locations of impact in those situations by a reasonable person would result in the same conclusion: the Halo did in fact prevent fatal injuries. You sir, are not a reasonable person.

@Stephen Payne unfortunately its not a cure for toxic cynicism either.

@It’sNineThirtyFive The roll bar on Zhou's car broke off. Which made the Halo's job even more important.

@Stephen Payne sure, it could be weakly argued that the halo didn't play as important of a factor in Zhou's crash as the roll bar above his helmet did, but the F2 crash was nonlethal solely due to the halo. Watch the footage.

I'm very happy to see that Zhou is alright. Not only that, he also ended up completely unscathed after the horrifying crash.

Lanzhu Zhong also crying on the team radio after knowing that Zhou is OK.

Charles appeared to be in in control of the race until Ferrari decided to get involved .

@Logan Sheridan The could have changed his damaged wing as well. His race could have gone so much better, unfortunately.

Yet more evidence that Binotto makes the wrong strategic calls under pressure, mistakes that Toto Wolff would never make. Binotto should be in Milano selling Bennetton sweaters to tourists!

@joo baggs yup, old tires mess up races

@Logan Sheridan they pulled a Mercedes Abu Dhabi strat!

@Paul Thomas no just Ferrari being incompetent. If they pitted him under the safety car instead of leaving him out on old hard tyres he wins the race. He had to get pulled aside after the race and told not to go on TV and say how useless his team is.

Hamilton would support banning F1 completely if it meant him getting more "virtue signaling points".

Seriously Lewis? For goodness sake, had it been under normal racing conditions, it could have been one of the darkest days in sport history.

@Banki Which is it then— the way that Lewis did it was completely dumb or he said completely the right thing?

Yeah but he doesn’t support the fact that they did it on track with moving cars

I think its interesting how some of the reports wording suggest Gasley went for a gap that wasn't there instead of stating that Russel moved right and turned into Gasley. I'm not saying it's eithers fault, just something I noticed in how this is being reported.

@Ironbark Well you're half right haha, though I wont hold the nit picking against you. fair is fair ^_^.

Ummm not nit picking but Russell moved LEFT not right, unless my left is not my left but my right. Not Gasly fault at all...

I know right, unsure why that is! Sounds like they seem to want to blame Gasley for if it comes to that.

Haven’t been the biggest fan of Russel (I’m not denying his insane talent), but his reaction to the incident and call to action for the FIA has made me respect him massively. Those first few minutes can make all the difference and George recognized and acted on that.

@Visual Ghoul if it was a swerve, he would’ve been handed penalty points. There was absolutely no harsh or quick steering input. As I said, I’m not a fan of Russel by any means, so I’m not going to defend him if he did something blatantly wrong. That wasn’t a swerve.

@Joshua Fleckenstein It was a swerve

@Visual Ghoul yes, and? Just like you said, that’s as much of an incident as they come. He didn’t “swerve”, he just moved to the racing line to cut off Gasly and well, the rest is what we saw. Damn near any driver would do the same.

@soundscape26 wouldnt have happened if he didnt panick over getting overtaken by Latifi and then swerving to close off anyone else trying to overtake him.

@Visual Ghoul So he wouldn't run to check Zhou if not for that?

The incident with the protestors brought flashbacks of 1977 kyalami gp where a marshall and Pryce were killed I never knew that it almost had happened yesterday but thankfully it was red flagged

I'm worried about how the roll hoop got destroyed like that, that thing is supposed to be super strong and at 3:03 you can see it's already gone.

@Santiago Yes, agree that it shouldn’t be like that but this seem to be specific with just Alfa Romeo cars though. The wreckage after the crash clearly shows that the roll hoop was not bolted onto the cockpit. Most likely it was just glued in.

@Ton AMG Taking aside where the car ended which is a problem for the track, look at 3:03 the roll hoop is already gone and the car isn't even out of the track, that's a big no no.

@NuclearHeadshot Seems like Alfa Romeo cheap out on the roll hoop as from the wreckage photo, it seem like it was just glued in and not bolted on as required by the regulations. It is also using a single pole design rather than the triangle one. Although this is allowed by the regs, it is definitely not as strong. So maybe the FIA need to update to use the triangle design only and ensure that the team properly bolted the roll hoop on to the cockpit. They definitely needs to look at the track thought because roll hoop or not, the driver will be trapped if the car ended up in that gap again.

@Ton AMG If the roll hoop would've been there, he'd have - barely - enough space to get out. Tracks should also be modified so it isn't possible to trap a driver in. When a primary safety feature fails (which imo is the track), a secondary one should be there to keep disaster out.

@Santiago The roll hoop is there to protect the driver from roll over. In this case if the car just roll over on the track, Zhou should be able to get out on his own. The reason he wasn’t able to get out is because the car got sandwiched in between the catch fence and the tyres barrier. They might have to think about doing some modifications for the track about that.

I have not seen a roll hoop on an open wheel car that severely deformed and damaged since Greg Moore lost his life in the CART race at Fontana. Without the halo this could have been very tragic.

The roll hoop failing is down to the extreme weight of modern cars. If the racing wasnt an argument for lighter cars, this is

@Cidi Racing i think it's more the design of the alpha vertical roll hoops if you look indycar theres a lot of crash with car inverted but indycar had the V shape roll hoops and i never see roll hoop been destroy due to a slip.

Ironically, they'll probably reinforce the roll hoop and make it heavier 🤪

@Cidi Racing thus adding more weight. The answer is bio fuels and a move to smaller electric batteries as they are super heavy snd dense.

Great Race!!! I’m glad Zhou and Albon are ok. Because it hasn’t been posted I’m giving the 2022 British GP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I was stunned by how once that car flipped, it travels hundreds of meters and then flips over a barrier and against a fence. Gives an idea of the forces at work at speeds like this

Can't wait for the onboard highlights for the Hamilton, Perez, Leclerc fight at the end as well as what looked like an awesome battle between Lewis and Lando on lap 1. So far, race of the season imo.

Love this channel. Great job covering highlights. An awesome race and great drama with everyone going home ok. And thank you for retiring the sparkles for the segues!!!!

This was crazy. I'm looking forward to the full report hopefully that will shed light on everything. Nice video. Keep up the good work.

in addition to the halo, it should be noted at what point the safety of the tanks has reached: after a collision like this a few years ago, the car would have caught fire and no one would have been able to save Zhou

I could not believe how much gravel got scooped up into the cockpit from the Halo, then went flying out when the car flipped over the barrier. If that car had got more airborne it could have ended up over the first fence and maybe even into the stands behind. I also noticed the catch fence structure that has "I" beams protruding out toward the track, I thought, what if a car, and or driver, got impaled on the end of one of those in a crash. Good thing that car did not catch fire, it would have been hard to get him out. The marshals all scattered just before the car impacted the fence. Could have been worse.

It's so nice to see Sainz win his first GP even after that crash, I'm going to watch the replay with joy

Russell got off the line a bit slowly, saw Latifi pass him on the left and in a split-second, immediately shut the door on Gasly, probably instinctively. If fault can be attributed at such speed, Russell would have been the one feeling sick and having to explain himself if Zhou had died or been seriously injured.

@8thlvlMage What did you make of Georgie boy vs Perez this weekend?

Latifi nailed the start and that rattled Russel to try to block Gasly

@Gl 1100 Fair enough. I’m just asking what the rules are. Seems to me there must be a line which can be crossed as concerns shutting the door and if there is, whether people think Russell crossed it (or not).

@8thlvlMage Dude, just asking people’s opinion. Chill out.

@Steve Langridge Dude, relax. This is youtube comments, not court.

Thing is even though the Alpine and Alpha Tauri were going slow they had damage to the car. Imagine if parts had broke off causing them to loose control? Even at what 40mph that could of still killed a marshal or protester. I can’t believe how tick people are.

Wasn't really a fan of George until this, good to see that he went to help Zhu 👏

Thank God that Zhou, or anyone else, got severely injured. That crash could’ve been disastrous.

Great race, glad Zhou is okay - we get great view at 1:22 of what exactly F1 ground effect looks like on Alfa car

thank god for Zhou, that was a gharly crash indeed, glad he's ok!

That was terrible to watch! So glad he is ok. Amazing race.

I still love the video of the guy removing the crazy oil people from the highway. Honestly nothing would have been lost if they got hit.

The guy who came up and / invented the concept of the Halo needs to be put in the F1 Hall of Fame.

So glad Zhou is ok, and George really has a kind soul 👍

You got it wrong. Russell moved markedly to the left of the track squeezing Gasly who tried to avoid Russell. The contact is down to Russell alone. You cannot just move across the track unless you have seen a gap.

Silverstone always open the gateway for chaos. I expect Austria to favor the big 3 again, which will make the season even more chaotic

Again, thank you God and the FIA for the freaking Halo, barriers and that fence. I'm very thankful he was ok once he got out, not even suffering from any major injuries, of course besides maybe being extremely disoriented, thankfully he's ok.

Can we race another one there this year please! That was awesome.

That's not what Hamilton said and not what he meant. The "clarification" was damage control.

Frankly as much as the halo saved zuho, I believe it added to the crash severity. The flatness of the halo gave a triangle of stability

One of the best races till now for this season I was scratching my head, I plucked hairs out of tension, I cussed I screamed and in the end I was so so happy for Sainz and Perez . I said to myself, "Yes, this is what racing should be like". Love Checo Perez❤️🙌💙.

When I first seen the crash I was shocked and fearing that he might of got hurt

I really like these new cars. Drivers are able to throw them around in traffic like Formula Ford. This seperates the great drivers from the average. Hamilton was really pumped after the race. Behind all the hype, and the Championships, and the Knighthood, there is a pure racer. Good to see him smile.

i’ve said it once i’ll say it again. kimi räikkönen will still be the last ferrari champion after this year

周に大きな怪我が無かったのが本当に良かった。 あとラッセルが車を止めてすぐに駆けつけたのがカッコよかった。

We were extremely fortunate that Zhou's car did not catch fire. I cannot imagine what would have happened if it had caught on fire with Zhou trapped in the cockpit and their fire retardent layers being able to withstand a fire for only 30 seconds.

I'm happy that the safety features of modern F1 cars kept Zhou safe, and equally happy that the safety features of F1 tracks kept the fans safe in that situation too. However, I do fear that in incidents like this, we just applaud the halo and move on. There is no getting away from the fact that the roll structure failed as it disintegrated immediately after the initial contact with the floor. Surely this should be robust enough to remain intact and help the car right itself in a similar manner to how it did for Mark Webber's incident at Valencia in 2010? If the cars are too heavy for the roll structure, then surely the regulations need to change.

Glad those car are safer than before, imagine if the car caught on fire and Zhou couldn't get out of there by his own.

Best race in years. The ending was FANTASTIC.

I am glad that Zhou Guanyu is safe and well. No doubt due to good luck and good engineering!

Lewis Hamilton one of the all time greats but an absolute tool all at the same time.

Team loyalties go out the window when you see these things happen, glad all involved are ok. On a side note, out of 10 how do you rate Ferraris strategy team? I feel they just reach inside a hat and read whatever is on that piece of paper and that's their strategy for the race.

There’s like a meme pack for ferrari and only ferrari on strategy fuck ups.

Sergio just looked bewildered by the end. “I finished where? How?!”

Haha he did a bit. I do love his racing, and he so deserves this amazing car he has. I wouldnt mind if he won the championship. 👍👍

Silverstone still looks like the 1950s in some parts, not surprised the barriers were inappropriate or the fact people can get on the track. Imagine if the Alfa had been on fire and with a driver stuck in there. Those idiots on the track will lose even more support for what they do.

Yeah it's a quite dangerous track. Also Max's 50g impact last year or Schumacher who broke his legs 1999. Poor safety

I'm just wondering how the protesters got to Silverstone?? Do they live locally or did they drive 🚗or maybe by hot air balloon, glider, or maybe they walked?

What a crazy race. Long live the halo!

"What if Zhou's car had caught on 🔥 as he was trapped between the barriers, unable to get out !!!". I can't stop imagining This horrific scenario since the race ended last night !! The halo definitely saved his life but it also restricted an emergency escape for the driver. WHAT IF ..... ??!!!!

It’s more barrier design which prevented escape and I’m sure they’ll look into it again. Just glad it didn’t catch on fire.

there was an incident many years ago when a marshal running onto the track to help another driver, was hit by an F1 car instantly killing both driver and Marshal...so if by deliberatelly running or placing yourself on the track ..this is not only likely to be another story for the Darwin awards, but murder or at least premeditated ....had an F1 driver swerved into a barrier...this could have killed not only the driver but marshals but also maybe other protesters..the person(s) who encouraged this i believe incited murder, as a car at speed would not have been able to miss without some sort of accident, and usually on the first few laps the cars, except maybe the first one or two, would only see the rear of the car in front, so even if the first cars swerved, it is unlikely the following cars could avoid. Ask any train driver who has had or nearly had, or believed thathere was a chance that someone would jump in front of them and how traumatic that was ...imagine what it would have done to all the drivers, the crowd, the Marshalls and the TV viewers to see body parts flying around as a result..let alone their parents and loved ones..the organisers were instigating a situation of murder..they should be brought before the courts and imprisoned this is not the first incident like this..there was Emily Davison over 100 years ago who tried a similar trick...

That was a super close call in an otherwise fantastic race. Fia has some safety revisions to do.alsohad no idea about the protestors, that couldhave ended very badly and the red flag probably was a sign from the universe 😆

It was nerve-wracking, waiting to hear if Zhou was okay. You could see the car going through the gravel trap upside down, and they showed George getting out of his car to run across the gravel towards him, but then they didn't show his car, and they didn't show any replays, which is never a good sign. It's a good thing that he didn't have any serious injuries, with the car trapped like that. I suspect we'll be seeing some changes to make sure that can't happen again.

How five random people sitting in the middle of some F1 track will make gas and oil production to stop (and why though? we need oil and gas for energy needs) is beyond me.

It's a real shame Zhou's car didn't take out all five of them :(

Happy that Zhou escaped with minimal injuries Salute to Russel. He is a fine gentleman.

Wasn't really Gaslys fault, Russel started going left and got caught on him which sent him flying even more left and impacting Zhou. But to be fair, 3 wide on the run to turn 1 with one guy trying to rush in the middle very often ends up in disaster for multiple people. I don't know why they don't get briefed about avoiding those situations and save their car to fight the entire grand prix instead. For me it's been the biggest drawback to Gasly these past years, the amount of time he DNFs or get damage early laps or turn 1 for small gains he could make later on with pace instead.

Yes, I watched it. Gasly put his car in a no-win situation.

@Paul Jaworski yes at the start, not before the corner

@lukas ralys but the Williams made it thru. There was enough room till George turned left

@lukas ralys Russell turning left caused the crash, gasly is actually trying to get out of it when he sees the gap closing. Like I get that George is formula ones little golden boy right now, but don't let that blind you to the facts

@Christy Gray i prefer Russell to be at fault 500 percent.

Don't give the protestors oxygen or they'll keep doing it. Ignore them.

There has been many discussions on how eau rouge is / was a dangerous corner, but I think that Silverstone has quite a lot of them. That track is a real disaster waiting to happen. As for the track invasion. It's insane that people think that's a good idea. Must be said, that they were casually walking to the track, while it has been announced. Seems the Marshals track side were not paying attention.

Yeah it has poor safety. Also big impact from versappen last year or when Schumacher broke his legs. Meanwhile in China buemi loses his front tires at 200mph and doesn't even hit the tire barrier

The F2 accident was worst and shows how well the new cars protect their drivers

I don’t even want to imagine if that car had caught fire while being stuck between the fence and the barrier 🤯🤯🤯

Its worth noting that the type of fencing that caught Zhou's car was only installed this year (new-track-debris-fencing-gets-fia-approval.html) and even then the fencing is only really designed to catch debris, not an entire car. We were dangerously close to a Le Mans '55 situation were the car would of gone flying into the crowd.

Those protestors either needed to be left where they were for the duration of the race, or dropped off on a busy motorway in the middle of the fast lane, just for practice. Anyone backing their cause is unable to comprehend the reality of life.

It was mentioned in the F1 word's reaction stream that Albon was taken to hospital for possible concussion. Dramatic and all a Zhou's accident was, what also concerns me is they also mentioned on the stream that Williams are normally pretty quick with press releases to say everything is OK but there wasn't any before I left the stream. Is Alex alright?

@soundscape26 thank you.

He already posted on his Instagram from the hospital. He's fine given the circumstances and looking forward to Austria.

Has the rollhoop become weaker with the introduction of the halo? Mark webber went upside down and the rollhoop was enough to prevent him from being crushed, whereas the rollhoop was decimated by this accident.

Maybe Hamilton and Vettel should virtue signal even more, o wait they just did…

Hamilton's comments just show how delusional he is, totally disconnected from the real world.

George Russel standing on the tyrebarrier wildly gesturing reminded me of David Purley in 1973 with Roger Williamson on Zandvoort, except that in 1973, the driver hanging upside down died...

“Just stop oil”? They think it’s so simple, don’t they?