Racing driver Ollie Millroy has thanked competitor Loek Hartog for ‘saving my life’ for pulling him form the burning wreckage of his Ferrari in a GT3 race in Shanghai.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hartog risked his own life to stop and use a fire extinguisher to beat back the flames to extract Briton Millroy from the accident which happened at Turn 14 – the hairpin – at the end of the back-straight of China’s F1 circuit.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Millroy suffered five broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, a broken hand and finger and a bruised lung in the accident, but later credited Hartog with saving his life.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The crash occurred around 20 minutes into the race as Neil Verhagen\u2019s BMW battled David Chen\u2019s No. 37 Harmony Racing Ferrari on the approach to Turn 14.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verhagen moved onto the grass while attempting to pass and lost control of the BMW on the damp surface, making contact with Chen\u2019s Ferrari.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Both machines then slid towards the hairpin, where Millroy\u2019s AAI Motorsports Ferrari was struck from the side and caught fire, coming to rest on the outside of the track.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hartog then stopped and after nearly a minute, was able to drag Millroy to safety, later taking to Instagram to say: “Thank you Loek. I owe you my life for your selfless act today,” whilst saying he regarded Hartog’s actions as “superhero” like, with Hartog responding by saying: “It was terrifying, and there were moments when I didn\u2019t know if I\u2019d ever manage to get Ollie out.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing driver Ollie Millroy has thanked competitor Loek Hartog for ‘saving my life’ for pulling him form the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-882190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882190","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=882190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}