𒀰Guenther Steiner has recalled the terror of Romain Grosje𝔉an’s notorious fireball crash.

Grosjean’s Haa🔯s hit the barriers at the 2020 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix at 137mph with a full ♓load of fuel, before bursting into flames.

Af🌳ter a few seco🌄nds of horror, Grosjean hopped out of the wrecked car.

“The biggest reflection is that we got🅰 lucky,” then-Haas team boss Steiner told the Sky F1 podca🅺st. “Somebody looked after us.

“It was the shorte♚st - and the longest - 30 seconds of my life.

“You know that if heᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ doesn’t come out𝓰 now, then he’s not coming out…

“I hౠave done racing cars for a long time and, when you see this ball of fire, you know he is not surviving unless he comes out.

“The only way to survive i🌳s to jump out of the car.

“While yo♔u try to take control of the situation, he jumps out. And it’s finished, we are good.

“The most important thing is that he is alive. And we will de꧋al with the rest.

“Now, I don’t look back negatively because he got away with𝓰 it.

“Think about the positives. The safety of these racing cars. “Without the 🅰Halo, he would have had no chance to come out.

“The people around him who helped.

“He got lucky but F1 made their own luck by being stringent. “After anything happens ♚they introduce new measures to make it safer.

“After that cr🅰ash, there were changes made to the car so that this ไcannot happen.

“There was nothing wrong with the car. We’d neve🎉r experienced anything✅ like this. We could not simulate it.

“I take the positives away. I givღe a lot of credit to Jean Todt, the FIA president, who pushed the Halo system through because a lot of people were against it.

“People make decisions which✱ make theꦰse things happen.”

The Halo, in particul꧑ar, is now widely considered a revolutionary technological advancement.

The curve🐷d bar which sits around a driver’s head while he sits in the cockpit was initially criticised for its aesthetic, including by some people within F1.

But years later it is cre⛄dited with keeping several drivers safe in their scariest moments.