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ROMAIN GROSJEAN revealed the burn wounds on his right hand as he continues to recover from a horror Formula One crash.
The Frenchman’s car slammed into a wall at 140mph during the Bahrain Grand Prix last month and exploded into flame.

Romain Grosjean gave a thumbs-up as he updated fans on his recoveryCredit: Instagram @grosjeanromain

The racer’s right hand bore significant burns across the knucklesCredit: Instagram @grosjeanromain

Less than two weeks after hauling himself out of the burning wreckage, the Haas driver has been able to remove the dressing from his right hand.
Posting a picture of his scars onto Instagram, Grosjean wrote of how ‘it feels so good’ to see himself on the mend.
He wrote: “50% back.
“Bloody hell, makes me super happy to have my right hand free from dressings.

“Loads of creaming all day long but it feels so good to see it in such good shape.
“Waiting for my left hand to recover now.”

Grosjean sustained the burns while climbing out of the flamesCredit: Splash News

The Frenchman was saved by F1’s impeccable safety standards – including a new firesuit introduced this yearCredit: Sky Sports
The picture shows a deep burn on the knuckle of his index finger with the skin singed down his hand, and another considerable wound on his middle knuckle.
Grosjean’s left hand remains wrapped up following the accident.

The 34-year-old was left with only the burns and an injured foot after the terrifying crash – and is expected to make a full recovery.
There were even hopes of the Haas veteran jumping back in the car for the upcoming season finale in Abu Dhabi.

However, any chances have been extinguished by the injuries, although Grosjean hopes for one final runout in an F1 car when he is better.
Until then, he has been able to return to normality with a stint in the gym and on his sim racer on Thursday.
Earlier in the week, he posted a happy birthday message to wife Marion after returning to their home in Switzerland.
He wrote: “Wasn’t supposed to be home but glad I got to spend this 8th of December 2020 with my loved ones.”

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VALTTERI BOTTAS admits George Russell’s excellent performances during the Sakhir GP weekend could have made himself look like ‘a complete c***’.
Russell jumped into Lewis Hamilton’s car and, with only two days of cramming, was able to get up to speed with its complicated systems.

Bottas says Russell’s amazing Sakhir GP made him look like ‘complete c***’Credit: Splash News

The Brit was so at home, despite being too big for Hamilton’s bespoke cockpit, that he topped both Friday practice sessions and only just missed out on pole.
During the race, he beat Bottas at the start and pulled off an excellent overtake at the restart to clinch the driver of the day title on his Mercedes debut.
Russell only failed to win due to what Mercedes boss Toto Wolff called a ‘colossal f*** up’.
It has raised questions as to whether Bottas should keep his seat for 2021, despite having signed a new deal in the summer.

But the Finn says while outsiders might start to question him, he has the full backing of his Mercedes bosses.
He said: “If you don’t know things, I might have looked like a complete c***, a fool, so that’s not nice.
“But the people who know, they know how the performance [was] and how the end result could have been.
“It was a pretty bad race for me from that side and it will be very easy for people to say that a new guy comes in and beats the guy who has been in the team a few years, so it was not ideal.

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“He obviously did a mistake-free race, but I still knew there would be everything to play for.
“The race was not finished when we had the thing with the pit stops, which changed everything.
“I managed to go a bit longer on the medium tyre and that would have opened up opportunities for me.
“I was catching him.”

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