The charred stays of the System One automobile Romain Grosjean crashed on the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix will go on show at a brand new exhibition in Madrid subsequent month.

Grosjean survived the terrifying accident, which noticed his Haas crash into an unprotected barrier at 120mph, cut up in two and burst into flames.

The French driver spent 28 seconds within the inferno earlier than he labored his manner free from automobile, which had cut up the crash barrier and develop into wedged between two strips of steel.

Grosjean’s accidents had been restricted to burns to his palms, largely thanks his overalls, fireproof underwear and his helmet.

“It was solely the following day once I requested somebody to indicate me what it seemed like that I realised,” Grosjean mentioned in an interview with the organisers of the exhibition.

“My spouse was truly watching that race with my dad and my youngsters. They are going to keep in mind that second their whole life. They had been simply spectators ready to listen to one thing… ready to see one thing from Bahrain.

“I needed to break the headrest, punching it with my helmet after which I ultimately managed to get my helmet by way of and rise up within the seat. I realised my left foot was caught into the chassis and I pulled as laborious as I might on my left leg. My shoe stayed within the chassis however my foot got here unfastened so I used to be free to exit the automobile.

“It was 120 kilos of gasoline plus the battery — each had been on fireplace. Dr Ian Roberts, Alan [van de Merwe] from the medical automobile and one fireman had been making an attempt to open a niche within the fireplace to assist me get out. I consider that helped me not less than to get a imaginative and prescient of the place I needed to go and the place the exit was.

“The survival cell is there for you in case of a huge effect. I used to be intact contained in the shell. The chassis continues to be in a single piece, the halo is there and aside from the injury and burn it’s nonetheless appropriately. I assume that saved my life.”

In collaboration with Haas, the exhibition’s producers will show the stays of the automobile’s survival cell, which has been saved beneath wraps for 3 years following the FIA’s investigation into the crash.

The exhibition will debut at INFEMA Madrid subsequent month, the place a purpose-built room named “Survival” shall be devoted to displaying the automobile to the general public.

The Haas chassis will assist inform the story of F1’s security enhancements through the years, whereas the broader exhibition guarantees to doc the story of the evolution of the game since its first race in 1950.