Here come the lights!
Hamilton then gets away well.
Verstappen off the line well.
Pérez coming up on the inside of Verstappen,
who is now in second place.
Tyres are good, just want to keep this.
Towards the back, Grosjean has already gained two places
coming out of Turn 1.
And it's Albon in 4th,
trying to keep up with Sergio Pérez
as he speeds into the distance ahead.
Grosjean still making moves to try and gain places.
F***!
Oh, my God!
What the f*** happened there? F****** get him out.
I think that's Romain Grosjean
that has gone into the barriers there.
About 140 miles an hour.
What the f*** was that?
Need to get the f*** out quick.
Red flag, red flag, there's a big incident.
Red flag.
-Could we-- -Slow down, please?
F***, f***, f***, f***.
This was a big one, this was a big one.
Is he OK?
I will come back to you.
No… he's f*****.
Has he got out?
No information on it yet.
S***, is he… is he OK?
Come into the pit lane.
Oh, tell me he's OK, please. Tell me he's OK.
There are certain moments where
silence falls on a racing track,
and you know what that means.
You cannot do anything. You're just a passenger to this.
The world seems to be coming down on you.
Once you see fire, that's the worst thing you can have.
This is bad.
Yeah, this one was hard to watch.
I felt very, very vulnerable in that moment.
Everything goes through your head.
You don't think that anybody can get out alive of this one.
I'm doing racing long enough, there is no good outcome.
He's not coming out.
The longer you sit and you wait, the more…
the fear kicks in because your instincts are…
that you know what the reality is.
When I saw the fireball, I couldn't believe
this could happen in modern Formula 1 cars.
A car shouldn't break in two.
Only when you see those things, you realise the danger that we go in to.
The big question was, where's the rest of the car?
And where is the driver?
I did think this would be a very bad outcome.
As I looked to my right,
I could see the driver
through the gap in the flame.
Not only has he survived going through a barrier
at 160 miles an hour,
within a ball of fire,
the heat must have been so extreme.
It was a miracle.
It was absolutely a miracle.
He wanted to walk to the ambulance,
and I was insisting, no, no, no
we'll get the ambulance here.
But he wanted to demonstrate that he was OK.
He got a message to everyone, his wife and family in particular,
that he was out and he was in a good place.
-How the f*** did he come out of that? -I don't know.
How did he jump out?
That's an act of God.