The British driver suffered six broken ribs, a broken collarbone, a broken hand, a broken finger and a bruised lung, but said the crash “could’ve been much worse”. <\/p>\n
“I am still alive tonight, entirely thanks to one man,” Millroy wrote in a social media post. <\/p>\n
“Loek Hartog stopped instantly with no flag marshals or fire crews in sight, and risked his own life to get me out of the car.<\/p>\n
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Hartog grabbed a fire extinguisher and doused the flames before pulling Millroy from the wreckage. Source: Ollie Millroy via Instagram (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t remember anything between 30 seconds before the crash and 1 hour after it, but I will remember his incredible act of bravery for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n
“Thank you Loek. I owe you my life for your selfless act today.”<\/p>\n
Hartog responded to Millroy’s post, saying he had “nothing to thank me for”.<\/p>\n
“I wish to live in a world where this would not be considered as bravery but as instinct of others too,” the Dutchman wrote.<\/p>\n
“I am so thankful to have been right at the place I needed to be in space and time. Speedy recovery and we will stay in close touch.”<\/p>\n
In an update yesterday, Millroy’s wife said he remained in a stable condition in hospital after undergoing “successful surgery”.<\/p>\n
She said the family felt fortunate he had survived the crash. <\/p>\n
“The overwhelming feeling that we all have is an enormous amount of gratitude and love towards Loek Hartog, who saved Ollie\u2019s life,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
Millroy’s team, AAI Motorsport, has since said it would no longer compete in races organised by China GT, criticising the event’s safety standards and accusing organisers of negligence.<\/p>\n
China GT organisers apologised following the crash, saying it would investigate and review any shortcomings around competition organisation, emergency response, rescue and medical services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British racing driver Ollie Millroy says he owes his life to a rival racer who pulled him from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2300,111,139,69,213,1745],"class_list":["post-593668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}