"Showing the images as if we were in Hollywood is not okay."
Daniel Ricciardo was going strong on Sunday night.
For the Renault driver, the images of the crash of Romain Grosjean, which occurred in the first round of the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, should have been unveiled with more discernment in his eyes.
And much later after the race.
Relieved to see the 34-year-old Frenchman out of danger and quickly taken care of by the doctors, the Australian stepped up to the plate, without a joke.
With palpable emotion, it is difficult to be otherwise in view of the accident whose images went around the world on Sunday.
And far beyond the sole framework of Formula 1. Asked about the crash a few minutes after seeing Romain Grosjean leave the circuit in an ambulance, Ricciardo gave the bottom of his thoughts.
“I am disgusted and disappointed with F1 to have shown as they did and looped the images of the fire, of the car cut in two and, as if that were not enough, its on-board camera.
It's playing with everyone's emotions, it's unfair, it's not entertainment.
It made me angry, I still am.
What mismanagement!
It gave the impression of being a game but it is not ”
Daniel Ricciardo
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"I am disgusted and disappointed with F1 to have shown as they did and looped the images of the fire, of the car cut in two and then, as if that were not enough, his on-board camera, blows he did before going even further.
What need to see that?
We will resume the race in an hour, his family must see this, our families must see this.
It's playing with everyone's emotions, it's unfair, it's not entertainment.
It made me angry, I still am.
What mismanagement!
It felt like a game but it's not.
We're lucky he's still here, the outcome could have been very different.
Showing that like we're in Hollywood isn't okay.
Maybe the day after the race, but not today. ”
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In the paddock, if the reassuring news from Romain Grosjean somewhat calmed a heavy and oppressive atmosphere, opinions differed as to the dissemination of images of a car in flames and cut in two after hitting the safety rail.
Main team of the Haas formation - that of Romain Grosjean - Guenther Steiner sees it as a way of quickly reassuring the relatives of his French driver present in front of their television screen and all the other drivers present in the paddock.
“Romain was lucky enough to get out of it so why not show it off?
It was also necessary to show as quickly as possible that he was well, it is more effective to warn the people concerned one by one.
Of course, it's dramatic but it ended well.
It's a good thing that we saw. ”
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