Zhou Okay After Heavy Silverstone Crash | 2022 British Grand Prix 

To think that it took years to even decide on a head protection, and then some more to acutally introduce it, is crazy. If this discussion had started 5 years later, there would be several deaths by now (if everything had played out the same).

@@NotCubes don't forget it got hated a lot the Halo when it was implemented

@@etam8099 i was one of the haters but i now rly can’t hate that thing anymore

@@etam8099 I was also one of those people. I thought it would obstruct driver view. What a fool I was and I take it all back. Incredibly simple yet ingenious invention that has quite literally saved multiple lives.

@@drkintobor2597 it does obstruct their view a bit but it's frankly worth it. Halo has at least saved 3-4 drivers already

Exactly... I'm pretty sure the roll-hoop will be revised after this.

Without the catch fence that car would have been in the crowd. So many things saved a disaster. He must have been seriously shaken up, it was bad enough watching it happen.

@@awalk5177 now we are exaggerating with this halo thing,i'm not saying that it's not useful but there is still the roll hoop for this types of crashes

@@awalk5177 No, it wouldn't, it didn't get catapulted high enough. Could've been scary though, feeling the car hitting the bottom of the grand stand. Also, I don't think the roll-hoop failed. The car just looks flat like a pancake because the rear wing and the camera on the roll-hoop were gone, plus the r-h and halo are pretty much level.

@@tommasofrogli8065 the roll hoop disintegrated

Yes, we do. I spotted the accident happening before anyone else in my family because I was looking at Pierre Gasly's start rather than the front, and screamed, the as it cut to t1 and all I saw was the car upside down across the gravel. Awful. Then we get the image of George sprinting acrosa, and no images of the actual scene, and ngl I was in panic mode

@@rebekahl840 i was zoned in on max overtaking sainz and just saw a car zooming head first into the gravel lol. was very scary indeed.

They do that only several years, earlier they showed it.

Honestly I was at the race sitting far away from there we saw red flags but we didn't know the full story of why then seeing the big screens of the incident was so scary to see when we heard that Zhou was fine it was so lovely to hear that. Then obviously seeing him talk domenicali was great to see because he got out of such a horrifying crash.

I was instantly checking all the on board cams in replays. after that me and a friend who was watching alongside where even more concerned. So happy that everbody is fine and healthy. But was shocked me the most was the Alfa flipping over the barrier and nearly over the fence...

@bilishu aliss Do you remember Romain Grojesian fire ball crash

@@tjlifts4068 “one of”

Indeed and the whole paddock knew within 2 mins that he was ok. Terrible thing to do to the fans.

@@unthenner5519 Agreed, we were left waiting for so long..

Same thing happened with the grosjean crash... we sat there for such a long time with zero information... not knowing if he was even alive

@@adenkyramud5005we saw him come out of his car live after about a minute

Not really, after the accident he was upside down for many minutes, and then removed from the car and taken to the medial center, and only after doing some exams there and making sure everything was okay he was released and could go back to the pits, and that's where that scene of him talking with stefano and frederic happened, that scene was only shown live close to the end of the race

@@corvetaumbr2410 The point is that he got out of this horrific crash relatively unscathed. They just said "talking to people after the crash", not _immediately_ after the crash.

@@ninetailedfox579121 Yeah, i got that wrong, still is amazing that he is completely fine after such horrific crash

Ironically, Albon was the one who has to get a thorough check at the hospital, While zhou was released quite quickly and was walking around the pits.

I was just raving how excited I was to see him qualify so well. Disappointed to see it happen to him but thankful he's ok. He's been incredibly unfortunate in alot of races. This one wasn't one of those times

What’s the roll hoop

@@hashiramasenju2874 that small thingy on the engine cover i think

@@hashiramasenju2874 The part of the car above the drivers head, designed to act as a safety structure in the event of a rollover, looks like it was ground away by the tarmac.

It could've ended up like lemans 1955 without the crash fence and halo...

Yea, it looks like the roll hoop got crushed and that pretty bad. Luckily the halo saves the day a second time this day, referring to the F2 crash.

Ss

you dont say

Grande Boteco!

Probably because of the high speed he was going while upside down on the gravel. I could imagine that the gravel would've started to become like small knife edges due to the speed and then also mostly because of how the roll hoop dug into the gravel at the end of the gravel trap. So I think they just need to reinforce the base/structure and material of the roll hoop.

@@daniilkvyat7362 Roll hoop failed before he even touched the gravel.

He caused it.

@@johnnycab8986 it's gasly tho

@@gamingsatan3979 nah it was Russell, he pinched Gasly. but he is really nice for stopping and checking on Zhou

@@gamingsatan3979 Russel never learned what a rear view mirror is for

Props to him for stopping and checking, but Russel did cause it by closing the door at 0:07 when Gasly's front wing was basically at the height of his rearview mirror.

He got blind sided by another driver, and walked away with out a scratch.

it's on terrible low level... Rollbar completly destroyed like from plastic. Fance almost broken and car wasn't on full speed. Big tyre bumped car up because low knowledge level pirelli cannot make strong tyres on small rims. Sasuage kerbs are still on track...

Yeah, since the cars have the halo, It's like a miracle that after every serious accidents the pilots are completely unhurt, no broken bones, literally nothing. The man who invented it was a genius and saved many lives.

What's the difference between okay and unhurt

What utter nonsense

@@HaydenLau. If you have a broken bone after such an accident it could be argued you'd be relatively okay, whereas you wouldn't be unhurt.

Yep. I count 28 drivers lives were saved cuz of this Halo.

And Indy didn't put the aeroscreen back in 2018!

Its all down to the halo

try 5-6 years prior

@@KingofFray few = 5

Facts

@@KingofFray that's kinda what they said tho

Some say he wears a wig. How could a man have hair like that always.

Helmet

We can, but we can also talk about his drift to the left that caused the crash. Gasly had nowhere to go.

@@tigershoot No we can't. He's British. And not Grosjean.

The crash was clearly Russel's fault, maybe he didn't see Gasly. Thinking about it now, he definitely had concern for Zhou but I think he also needed an excuse to get an engineer to help him on track (which I'm not sure is legal). He did not take that DNF with grace.

​@@louiskendagor3807 Gasley tried to go in between the two in a way it both their fault but at same time it was in the heat of the moment itself hard to see in this kinds of time where there is so many things to worry about at the start of the race

@@lag00n54 So goatifi's overtake on russell who doze off is acceptable but when gasly follows though the same hole and gets pinched by russell who doesnt look in his mirrors its gasly's fault all of a sudden ?

5? More like 25. Luckily he's okay.

I think they should get confirmation that the driver is moving and communicating as soon as they can for the viewers sake. to my understanding zhou was conscious the whole time and they couldve confirmed that about a minute in if they communicated. i for one got SERIOUSLY concerned for his health when they said 10 minutes later "he's still in the car" and nothing more.

@@test-tl8dt 😭😭😭

@@test-tl8dt nah, mate. you confirm to the viewers when youre 100% sure of his condition. Move him to a safe place, check his conditions, etc. You dont want to give a false hope if it turns out that he has injuries that the eyes can see. But, yeah, it wasnt a fun experience waiting for the update on his condition.

For me it was scary, but I had a feeling that he would be OK. Watching it live, I assumed he hit the barrier, but when I saw the replay, it looked worse than I initially thought. I did get a bit nervous when they took forever to show replays though.

The "popping out" of George was the last thing they showed on the live tv coverage I was watching of the scene, and was it was terrifing the way he sprinted, because we could see something was wrong but we didn't even know that he was in the fencing

I could not understand why the TV broadcasting has no scene for Zhou for so long time. My son and me kept waiting and praying for Zhou. The director of the TV broadcasting should be blamed.

I don't think the TV cameras are allowed to point at the crash site before the officials announce that the driver is fine and everything is okay.

@@arsenic5597 yeah it’s to stop them from accidentally broadcasting a driver’s corpse

With George you never know: is he running over there to check on him or is he running over there to smack him on the head like he did with Bottas

Yeah, I know they were holding off any footage until they can confirm he was okay. The wait was torture, we saw Russell, Albon, Tsunoda and ocon, but they never showed any replay footage of Zhou.

@@Kaimax61 Which is exactly how it should be, thankfully.

Yeah, but nothing will top Grosjean's horrific incident from 2020.. the amount of shock and stress at that moment, indescribable.. I was almost certain that Zhou was fine, because it didn't look that horrific at all.

@@marko6489 this was a bit scarier as we got the new on Grosjean immediately while it took forever to get anything on zhou

Yep last year with verstappens crash the f1 coverage was just focused on him alone and whether he was okay…

I noticed that parts of Silverstone is wider and has longer straight sections which creates racing like we saw yesterday. It's laid out like an American Style Road Course.

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The epic fight between Hamilton, Leclerc and Pérez will be in F1 priceless moments.

@@pkmkb007 That is the halo I believe you are looking at, the roll hoop is the air intake above the drivers head which got disintegrated.

Roll hoop is no longer a structural part of the cars since that purpose was replaced by the halo, it is impossible for the driver's head to touch the ground with the Halo, having the roll hoop would just provide another point to dig in the gravel and flip the car over.

Ok be sure to let the FIA know I'm sure they'll care what another keyboard racer think

@@papayamadness1019 roll hoop isn't structural anymore since halo replaced it... please learn about things before commenting

@@edisaacsson2722 The roll hoop shouldn't break like that. It should hold the car up when upside down and not the Halo like today.

Why wouldn't he be, they're driving around in bounce castles and there was nothing serious about the crash.

@@YourFavouriteDraugr Upside down at 150mph for multiple seconds before flipping between a barrier and catchfence, unable to move? Are you crazy?

@@YourFavouriteDraugr Lost

@@hdr_diamondz VERY INSANE. 😭

@@YourFavouriteDraugr so what your saying is you dont understand anything about F1

I’m normally not one to give a driver a pass, but Zhou has truly been unlucky this year. My impressions of him are positive from what we’ve been able to see so far

How many races has he finished this year? Not insulting his talent, I don't think mechanical problems are the drivers fault, I'm just curious.

@@randyhill1492 6 out of 10, if i didn’t get it wrong

@@randyhill1492 6 finishes out of 10 races

Yeah he qualified 8th for today and would have got some points too

I think the halo has kind of grown on us, it definitely has for me, the older cars look weird to me without it now

@@slimyish Haha yeah I feel the same way.

what is a halo?

@@rusty935 The titanium thing above the driver's head. It's there to protect them from accidents like this one

@@rusty935 it’s the hoop thing above the drivers head

The Halo in this instance caused the car to stay upside down by creating 3 points of contact. Without it it would have rolled sooner and not gone over the barrier.

That's F1 drivers for you, incredible men

@@AllProCombat Thats F1 safety mate. How is it F1 drivers?

@@rambo2667 Search for Martin Brundle's 1994 Australian GP crash. His car was flipped upside down after a similar crash, and my boy just ran to the garage to get the spare car and continue racing, that's F1 drivers

@@rambo2667 these drivers know the risk man but he's defenitly shaken, no matter how tough someone is you can't just shake this accident off.

@@rambo2667 it's not easy physically and mentally for just anyone to withstand these crashes. 😒🙄

F1 safety has been evolved since 2014 in fact.

Super proud of Russell who caused the crash in the first place?

@@evodude919 i usually would ignore this comment but if you actually watched the race Russell had a terrible start and got hit by Pedro Gaseoso and got spin around

@@Chavez96PR The driver's name is Pierre Gasly, by the way. I don't know if you have automobiles in your country, but when one is driving down the road and they want to move left, they must check their mirrors for traffic. Mr. Russell either did not do this or did not care as Mr. Gasly was already moving alongside him when he swerved to the left. Today, In Barcelona he managed to accomplish the same thing when his teammate was passing him on his left. I hope you are super proud of Mr. Russell once again.

@@evodude919 What it's your problem dude i never said it wasn't his fault but Mr know it all, lets say i cause a accident and hit someone you know do you just let me to die just cuz i made a mistake grow up i never said i was a Russell fan but he definitely deserved at the time to be commended for getting out of the car and checking on Zhou.

@@Chavez96PR yes, i acknowledge that it was a display of tasteful sportsmanship from Russel's part but let us not forget he is the main cause of Zhou's crash so it is quite the bare minimum for him to check on zhou but still, this is sports, some players could have turned a blind eye to this.

you are spot on

In one thing you are wrong, without halo driver would be also ok in inverted position in F1 car. Halo is a great thing and it is necessary to increase safety but it is over interpretation saying that halo is saving somebody when f1 car in inverted. Further FIA analyzes will show if Halo in this accident helps or just make difficulties to escape from car. (not sure if anybody from us will have access to read them) If there were any flames/fire there could be discussion about problems with leaving a car with halo. He was fine but just couldn't get out. It is more about statistics and which accidents are more frequently, ones that halo actual helps, ones that halo can trap driver in burning car.

@@wirtracwera4422 in THEORY sure, the roll hoop should protect them. Watch again, you see it instantly crush and see how close his helmet is to the ground, only thing stopping his head smashing into the ground and probably snapping his neck was the halo being there. When there are safety features with lives on the line, redundancies are important. While each redundancy has a small percentage of failure, when you get multiple, the chance of all failing gets lower and lower.

Maybe.. i don't remember F1 cars flipping this easily years ago.

toto wolff said on sky germany that he couldn’t continue even if he tried

@Backroad Runners but still its about the fact that het hit him and zhou could have died and george knew that

He couldn't have continued either way...

@@mikawen2704 True

Doesn't matter how many were there. It's the sportsmanship of the action. Regardless if he could have went on or not. This only shows that in the end, each other is what's important because that's all we really have in the world.

Utter nonsense

two pay drivers saved😍

@@edisaacsson2722 what is utter nonsense?

@@onda2981 fr, actually, but one of them has proven they actually also can drive (Zhou)

Nissany? What went down in nissany’s race?

An there was a lot of resistance to the HALO being introduce.

The F2 British GP Roy pushed Dennis off the track for no reason

Last year in w series in spa was huge but are okay

I remember watching the crash in a fan's recording and after he was caught between the catch fence and the tyre barriers he still managed to turn off the car.

I thought Russell was gonna go smack Zhous helmet.

@@zenkiz33 it's funny but I can't laugh + if only Russell checked his mirrors twice...we may not had that incident

Bc it was clearly his fault. Fair play

@@zenkiz33 😂😂 Nice one

It was his fault and he knew it , thats the least he can do.

As a rookie he is a perfect F1 driver

He's a communist that should be banned from F1.

yesssss

television people need to get a brain and show what should be shown

@@ThatCyberpunkGuy They don't show accidents until they know that the driver is okay.

@@ThatCyberpunkGuy They learned this from Grosjean's crash in Bahrain. Ricciardo at the time criticized the directors for replaying the accident over and over like a Hollywood movie.

@@NomadJedi I mean they did the same thing with Grosjean's crash as with this one. Waiting 15 minutes to even show a replay even though they knew he was out 30 seconds after it happened.

@@ThatCyberpunkGuy You need to realize that potentially fatal accidents shouldn't be shown live until a driver is confirmed okay. Especially since a huge majority of the time, family members are watching. The production crew for the 2020 Daytona 500 did the absolute wrong thing, by showing Ryan Newman's absolutely destroyed car, and close up replays of him getting hit, upside down, in the drivers' side at high speed, before anyone even knew if he was so much as _ALIVE_ as the extraction process took so long from how the car landed. No one should be seeing those camera angles outside of Race Control and Production unless it's expressly clear that the driver is alive and not fatally injured. Viewers weren't told anything and just shown various camera angles on replay, I genuinely thought he had died if not been severely injured - because we weren't told anything as they were still working to get him out of the car. We were just shown the replay as if it was just another normal crash. That's why I'd rather have FOM be safe than sorry and just not show accidents until they tell us the driver is okay - like Grosjean's crash.

He is fine he's ok

He totally A-OK. Zhou was set to the hospital, got a full checkup and been discharged

Tbf no one ever said it was a meaningless prop. People just disliked it because of how it looked and they thought it took away some of the spirit of f1 or something. Fortunately nobody thinks like that now.

Did you not read the thumbnail??

@@iViking90 Everybody talking about Zhou. What about Alex? No news about him? Is he alright?

I feel like people think the halo safes more lifes then it actually does. I personaly have heard people say the halo has safed 5-6 lifes. But I cant remember that many f1 drivers dying in such a short time before the halo was introduced

@@edofluit6568 while it might not have necessarily saved every one of those lives you have to admit they wouldn't have been walking away from it. Zhou would be in the hospital for months if he lived. Grosjean would've been beheaded by the barrier. Hamilton would have missed races after Max's car landed on his head etc. It's not for sure that they all would've died (except probably Grosjean) but you have to admit we wouldn't be seeing them in a car the following weekend

@@tarettime9392 Remember Alonso's front wheel on leclerc's head at SPA? that was the first time I really thanked the Halo.

@@tarettime9392 The roll hoop failed badly in Zhou's case, though. In a world without the halo,I assume we wouldn't be skimping out on the quality of the part supposed to protect the driver's head.

@@deheavon6670 the halo didn't fail and saved his head. We were talking about the efficacy of the halo not the roll hoop. The halo acted as life saving back up when the roll hoop failed but yes it's definitely concerning that if failed and should spark a full investigation and potentially redesigns

did the little rocks hit you guys?

@@homebase7347 the impact was just to the right of us so we didn't get a lot of it but the people in front definitely had to duck and sheild themselves. It was terrifying, the stewards said they were worried they'd have to evacuate our GrandStand just incase the car flew over. We were the first to see Zhou being conscious when on the stretcher.

Uploaded my POV to my channel.

@@cjgower6103 Nice, thank you

@@cjgower6103 You'd never evacuate a grandstand mid-accident, it all happens way too fast for that.

the roll hoop did not fail. the air inlet above the roll hoop broke, not the roll hoop itself.

I think the problem there was that the car perfectly flipped on its head with and not dangling on a side after till it dig into the gravel so its a 1 in 1000 situations wherr that happens

@@Syritis The roll hoop is integrated with the air intake. The roll hoop failed, end of story.

@@matthewboschin6313 no top of the hoop is at the bottom of air intake….end of story

Look up ''crumple zones''.

The most scariest since grosejan

@@thalesmendeslima1552 The Verstappen one was also very scary last year

@@thalesmendeslima1552 It was unbelievable to see him coming out of the car after so long struggling to get out surrounded by fire.

Scariest crash so far*

@@yourDecisi0n yes, but I think Grosejan was more

FIA will definitely scrutinize this. Remember how the Gearbox mount regulations were modified and implemented this season after analyzing Romain's 2020 crash. Its evident in Mick's Saudi and Monaco crashes. Something will be done to handle these scenarios as well. These are the kind of scenarios that you can't even imagine till you see it happen.

@@arunavaacharyya2205 FIA should stop being some lazy clowns and actually get on with making the sport safer, idc if cars become like half a mph slower safety matters more

@@ThatCyberpunkGuy lazy clowns? Zhou Guanyu survived this horror crash without injury.

@@ThatCyberpunkGuy Actually, I think with the improved safety, the car will tend to become faster. As they can be more confident in pushing the limit. I mean, records are still being broken last few seasons. And after they sort out the porpoising issue, I believe the car can still improve much farther than current. These cars might become bigger and less agile, but they definitely are not slower.

@@ThatCyberpunkGuy Lazy? Albon came out worst and had to be flown to a hospital, compared to Zhou who was released and was walking in the pits after a more horrific crash.

We can not take away that from him, but he also showed something else there...

He was running off to punch him thinking it was Bottas

@@eggman1006 I was thinking that 😂

He should , he caused this mess.

He was the one who caused the crash in the first place…

What were his injuries?

Him and Justin Wilson, who also died due to head injuries sustained on the track (even if his accident was at IndyCar)

please don't forget about María de Villota who also died from preventable a preventable head injury. it's still a mystery to me why heavy equipment at head height is allowed on the track.

Bianchi has nothing to do with halo. The impact of his crash would've killed him anyway if the halo was introduced back then.

There is chains inside the suspension arms that attach the wheels to the chassis so this doesn’t happen

That's why there are tethers which connect the wheels to the chassis, so that the wheels don't come off the cars in case of an accident.

@@Killakatnage89 yes, that’s what I’m saying. Thankful for that smart engineering

@@MAH18999 definatly , the advancements in safety in the past couple of decades has saved a lot of lives 👍

Red Flag: Am i a joke for you??

@@purwantiallan5089 ???

Not just 20, rather 5

Pedro Diniz, Nurburgring 1999

@@Bluehoshiflower Actually 2. The car would have caught fire but due to Grosjean's crash, they moved the fuel tank so it doesn't make the car go on fire.

As a brazilian I understand your feeling

@@tcmn1982 As a Chinese Senna fan, I understand both of your feelings.

As a fellow asian and f1 fan i can feel that bro

I thought the CCP blocked RU-vid?

How do you really pronounce his name?

His head woukd have been blown clean off skidding on the gravel at 150mph.

Absolutely right but imagine the crash without the fence ... Could have killed a dozen

The roll hoop failed, though. Without the halo I suppose we wouldn't be skimping out on the quality of the part supposed to protect the driver's head.

an hour long for the accident and 15 mins for the rest of the race 😂

Crazy right?

If the car wouldve lit on fire its game over

Drivers' suits are fireproof and there are many marshals with fire extinguishers in hands. If that happens, I'm pretty sure he will be alright. But, yeah that's a very bad scenario

@@tegarandikash he was stuck under the barrier, marshals would have trouble getting there+ it took 10 mins to get him out, it would defo be a career ending crash

@@tegarandikash fire suits and extinguishers only last so long, it took them several minutes to get him out of the car. He got super lucky, along with the fans sitting there too.

@@James.69 marshals will of course extinguish the fire first. Getting him out of the car is the second thing to do, if the car is like that

Certainly not Zhou's fault at all, Gasly probably should have seen the gap was closing, but Russell certainly chopped across too much.

100% agree. Gasly nowhere to go and Zhou totally innocent.

I don't think you can "100% blame a lap 1 incident like this. Everyone wants to be brave at the start of a grand prix, and you have less awareness of your surroundings since everyone are everywhere. well something can be sure, Zhou was at the right place but at the wrong time

@@joelambert7128 If Gasly slowed down, someone would have hit his back. Same way Albon got hit by Stroll here.

@@blazi2293 Russel got a bad start and was unable to take it gracefully as others did even though (in his own words) he knew he was playing the long game, being on the low grip hards. It's his responsibility as a driver to make sure nobody's foot is at the door before closing it.

I was all the way down at stowe so i couldnt see and yes i agree the halo has saved another lfe

He was looking if it Bottas so he could punch him.

After being he was at fault, it’s the least that he could do

@@Yahniboy It was just a racing inchident. Gasly was probably in Russell's blind spot on his mirrors.

@@hdr_diamondz sorry but the incident was all on Russell

@@Yahniboy this happens so often its always a racing incident the car in the middle always gets sandwitched and since its a right hand corner you cant give george the blame for taking a wider turn entry

Based on the way the car flipped he would have went into the barrier head first if it was higher.

Well there are no gravel traps on the street circuits. The car flipped over only because the wheels got dug into the gravel and the inertia did the rest.

Yet those cars are built so well, this crash and Grosjeans firey crash. Zhou and Grosjean are alive today because of how well the cars are built today.

It’s incredible that it didn’t really, they hadn’t even cleared the first sector, the tank had 52 laps of fuel in it

Gasly took a chance and Zhou and George paid the price. It’s nobody’s fault, just a classic first lap racing accident.

Russel wouldn't have seen gassly in his mirrors anyways. Gassly didn't have enough of his car between Zhou and george to own that position and knowingly he backed out. just a matter of milliseconds too slow. hense racing incident.

No doubt he will be back

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​@@unthenner5519 2020*