{"id":407817,"date":"2026-01-12T07:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407817\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:16:13","slug":"romain-grosjean-posts-touching-update-after-revisiting-2020-f1-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407817\/","title":{"rendered":"Romain Grosjean posts touching update after revisiting 2020 F1 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean has been reunited with his helmet from the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, the race that almost ended his life in one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1\u2032<\/a>s worst crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The French-Swiss driver suffered the horrendous accident on the first lap of the race at Sakhir, his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haasf1team.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haas<\/a> embedding itself under the guardrail, splitting it in two.<\/p>\n<p>A fire immediately engulfed the car, and initially, there was no sign of Grosjean escaping the flaming wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>But eventually, he freed himself from the car, having suffered huge burns to his hands, but mercifully, very little else in the way of injury.<\/p>\n<p>It marked Grosjean\u2019s final appearance in F1, and after being presented with the helmet that helped save him, took to his Instagram to reflect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive years after November 29 2020, I got reunited with my race helmet,\u201d Grosjean wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know if I was ready to see it but my kids really wanted to understand how I got so well protected in the fire and what did happen that night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll forever be grateful to Bell and Alpinestars for protecting me so well in that moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife goes and we forget, but that reminds me how much we should make the most of our lives every day.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Grosjean recently took part in an emotional test for the American squad, bookending his period in F1, fulfilling his long-held wish to step behind the wheel of a car again.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2026\/01\/11\/alex-dunne-explains-the-right-decision-to-quit-mclaren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Dunne explains the \u2018right decision\u2019 to quit McLaren<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romain Grosjean has been reunited with his helmet from the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, the race that almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,817,216101,5328,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-407817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-grosjean","12":"tag-haas","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}