'All our worst case scenarios at once' Dr Ian Roberts and Alan Van Der Merwe on facing Grosjean's horror crash plus James Key on McLaren's third place chances

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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TC and Alex are joined by Dr Ian Roberts and Alan Van Der Merwe to hear about making sense of an accident scene with every second counting, practicing for worst-case scenarios, how unseen footage detailed Romain Grosjean's escape after the 53g impact and why they’re not surprised Romain wants to return to racing (6:53).

Then hear from McLaren technical director James Key as the team juggle three years worth of car projects at once. (21:49)

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0:00.0	And there are cars all over the road on board with carless sides left, right and center.
0:03.2	Are they going to get through the car off the road? They're very close to the barrier!
0:06.0	And that's a huge crash, a huge crash in the background there.
0:09.8	And they will have to very quickly get on side.
0:12.5	A massive crash at the start of the race.
0:15.6	And the race is understandably neutralised. Red flag right now.
0:19.2	And we will hope that someone gets to Roman Grosjean very quickly there.
0:23.3	Because that looked a very scary accident indeed.
0:26.2	It's F1 Nation. I'm Alex Jakes.
0:28.2	He's Tom Clarkson and TC.
0:30.8	I have read about accidents like that.
0:33.4	But I've never seen one like that in modern times in HD.
0:37.4	Truly extraordinary scenes during the Bahrain Grand Prix.
0:41.6	Alex, we're recording this 24 hours after the event.
0:45.5	And I'm still struggling to comprehend what we saw in the Bahrain Grand Prix.
0:51.3	I mean, just terrifying scenes.
0:53.6	And for me, the difference was the fire.
0:57.2	We thought fire was a thing of the past.
1:00.1	All the safety cells and the position of the fuel tank in the car
1:04.8	and all of the safety measures surrounding fuel.
1:08.8	I mean, that we haven't had a fire like that.
1:12.5	I can't think, I mean, since Burger at Imola 1989.
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