just metres from one of the packed grandstands.Zhou was trapped in his car for several worrying minutes, triggering concerns he had been seriously injured or worse.
Thankfully the F1 rookie was finally extracted from the wreckage and, following a check-over at the circuit’s medical centre, was declared fit and well. READ MORE: Fan footage just yards away from shocking upside-down British GP crash emerges There was little left of the Alfa Romeo while the Silverstone didn’t escape damage either, it has emerged.
Sky Sports F1 reporter Craig Slater has inspected the track close up, revealing the various indentations and scars which were left on the track by the crash.“Look at this gauge in the ground, over a centimetre thick,” he said. “That’s what happened when those cars came together.
It forced the floors into the track and dug a bit of the track up. You can see more scarring further down [the track], where the carbon fiber has scraped into the surface itself.” Is Zhou Guanyu's crash the worst you have seen in F1?
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