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Doctor Roberts got close to the flames: 'We had to get him out'
Doctor Ian Roberts and driver of the medical car Alan van der Merwe were the heroes of today. They were there when Romain Grosjean had a hard crash. Roberts explains how he proceeded in that first round. Grosjean's car in half “The first lap went as normal, we followed the drivers and then we saw very high flames. You had half the car facing the wrong way and the other half halfway up the guardrail," said Roberts in a conversation with Sky Sports F1 about the accident. Marshall did a good job “We stopped and when I looked to the right I saw that Romain was trying to get out of the wreckage. We had to get him out somehow. The marshall with the fire extinguisher did just...
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