Safety: The Utmost Priority
Last night's race was a reminder that the risks all Formula 1 drivers take are very, very real. Yes, Lewis Hamilton may have won. Yes, Red Bull may have achieved a double podium. Yes, Sergio Perez should have been up there in 3rd place. But none of that surpasses the very real threat to life that Romain Grosjean experienced in the first lap of a traumatic Bahrain Grand Prix. In the 13 years that I have watched Formula 1, I have never seen anything so shocking to the point that I had goosebumps as I worried for the Frenchman's life. It takes me back to the day Jules Bianchi had his horrific incident in Japan. And I am not going to lie, at one point I thought Romain had lost his life in that very accident. Car split in 2, fire consuming the entire vehicle, and in the middle of that Grosjean trying to get out of the cockpit, it was an unbelievable sight to see. Fortunately, a figure emerged from the flames and Ian Roberts, F1's medical doctor, pulled him away from the fir