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Welcome to Day 8 of our pre-season series 30 days of Beyond the Grid. If you're just joining us, it's great to have you with us.

I'm sharing some favorite bits of the Beyond the Grid archive as we build up to our new season of in-depth interviews.

For day eight, we have a driver who raced car number eight,

Roman Grosjean.

The Frenchman chose the number 8

because his wife Marion was born on the 8th of December.

They started dating in 2008,

and he described his first child as the eighth wonder of the world.

Roman is clearly a big family man and was one of the nicest, smileiest drivers on the

grid during his Formula One career which is one of the reasons why his involvement

in that terrifying crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix sent shock waves through the

paddock and around the world.

Roman hit the wall at almost 120 miles an hour,

splitting his car in half, and he spent 28 seconds

in gulf by fire.

He then climbed to safety with the help of Dr Ian Roberts from the

FIA's medical team. The HALO is credited with saving his life, although burns to his

hands and ankles resulted in him missing the final two races of the season

and his contract with Haas wasn't renewed for the following year.

He'd driven his last lapse in Formula One.

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