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Alfa Romeo driver Zhou Guanyu has thanked the marshals and the medical team at Silverstone, following his involvement in the huge Lap 1 crash at the British ...

Separately, Zhou also reflected on the incident itself, saying: “It was a big crash and I’m glad I’m ok. I want to thank the marshals and the medical team at Silverstone, they were really fantastic. After being extracted from his car, the rookie driver was taken to the medical centre where he was declared fit.

OPINION: Formula 1 avoided a disaster despite protesters launching a track invasion at the start of the British Grand Prix. While the cause is one many will ...

The series has been clear in its push to make environmental concerns part of its plan for the future, aiming for a net-zero carbon footprint by 2030 and developing a fully sustainable fuel to be introduced in the coming years. But there is a way to go about things and to raise awareness. Like Vettel, Lewis Hamilton has been a key figure speaking out about issues that go far beyond motor racing, and initially welcomed the environmental protests when speaking in the FIA press conference after the race. This was not a way of disturbing something to make a point - a very valid one, it has to be said. The merits of climate activism cannot and must not be ignored. On another timeline, one where the resistance to the halo and its alleged sullying of motor racing’s purity proved successful, Zhou Guanyu’s terrifying accident at Abbey could have resulted in far worse consequences.

The four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel said he sympathises with the environmental protesters who invaded the track at the British Grand ...

“It’s hugely encouraging that we were in the fight,” he said. “We are out of time unfortunately,” he said. “We are in a dire situation.” I think the message was very clear and I completely sympathise with their fears and anxieties.” “These people don’t act out of frustration but they are desperate and I very much sympathise with their fears and anxieties which I think everybody who understands the size of the problem that’s drifting towards us can understand. “Everybody is free to have their own view on it,” Vettel said.