Esteban Ocon has shared grisly details of the after effects he suffered from a heavy crash at the Miami Grand Prix three years ago.<\/p>\n
Just 15 minutes into the final practice session during F1’s first trip to the Miami International Autodrome, Ocon spun and hit the barrier approaching Turn 14.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman was able to walk away from the collision with the barrier and returned to the cockpit the following day after sitting out qualifying.<\/p>\n
Ocon went on to finish the race in eighth place, but admitted he was carrying worrying symptoms following the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had some big crashes,\u201d Ocon said, speaking to the YouTube channel Legendary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTouch wood, those crashes have never been too violent, despite some of them exceeding 40G and nearly knocking me out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes my eyesight got blurry, or I had a headache for three, four days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ocon’s collision in Miami was with a concrete wall, rather than a TecPro barrier, which are commonplace in F1 to help absorb the energy of a crash.<\/p>\n
The section of track in Miami where Ocon crashed has since been updated with a TecPro wall.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old revealed on the morning of the Miami Grand Prix, he collapsed in the shower due to balance issues and was peeing blood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI took 42G \u2013 for people who want to see that crash, it\u2019s not that impressive, but I hit a concrete wall,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit both my knees and could barely walk afterwards. I remember, the next morning I was in the shower and I collapsed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost my balance and fell, I was not well at all. I managed, starting from last, to finish eighth in that race. I was peeing red, that was not great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esteban Ocon has shared grisly details of the after effects he suffered from a heavy crash at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-192583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}