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Serious accident at races at Silverstone
Survived the serious accident at Silverstone without serious injuries: Guanyu Zhou from the Alfa Romeo team. Photo: David Davies/PA Wire/dpa
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Miraculously, Formula 1 driver Guanyu Zhou survived a horrific accident at the Silverstone Grand Prix without serious injuries.
Miraculously, Formula 1 driver Guanyu Zhou survived a horrific accident at the Silverstone Grand Prix without serious injuries.
The Chinese overturned in his Alfa Romeo shortly after the start on Sunday after a collision with Mercedes driver George Russell and crashed over the tire barriers into the safety fence. The race was stopped immediately. After anxious minutes, Zhou’s team announced that the 23-year-old was fine. “He speaks and doesn’t seem to have any external injuries,” Alfa team manager Beat Zehnder told Sky TV.
Zhou was taken to the track hospital on a stretcher. Several cars were involved in the violent accident. Frenchman Pierre Gasly had touched Russell’s Mercedes in the Alpha Tauri when attempting to overtake. The Silver Arrow driver then crashed into Zhou’s car, which spun and went headlong off the track.
Several drivers tried to avoid the dramatic scenes at the start. Sebastian Vettel pushed his Aston Martin into Albon’s Williams, who then spun and hit several cars. The 26-year-old Alexander Albon had to park his badly damaged racing car on the side of the track and was first taken to the track hospital.
The Thai was then taken to Coventry Hospital by helicopter “for a precautionary examination”, the racing team said. The world association Fia had previously announced that Albon was conscious and had not suffered any serious injuries.
Alpine drivers Esteban Ocon and Yuki Tsunoda in the Alpha Tauri were able to return their battered racing cars to the pits. Because of the clean-up work, the tenth round of the season was interrupted for a longer period of time.