George Russell's incredible gesture to marshals involved in Zhou Guanyu's Silverstone horror crash
Approaching the one-year anniversary of the horror crash, with the F1 British🍃 Grand Prix ൩returning this weekend, memories of Zhou's incident are fresh.
T🌃he Alfa Romeo driver adm🐓itted that he was fortunate the survive the terrifying crash.
He believes that the Halo device saved his life, and he 🍸was rescued from a trapꦜped position by the marshals.
T♊he incident also involved Russell, who had clipped Zhou before he flew off the track.
A year🌼 later, Mercedes driver Russell has given a wonderful gift to the F1 marshals who helped Zhou in his moment of need.
Joost van Gerwen, one of the marshals, revealed:♋ "Today I was a guest of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 T𒊎eam.
"All the marshals involved in the incident with Zhou last year in Silverstone were invited by George Rusꦰsell for a tour at the Mercedes AMG♊ F1 Operations Centre.
"It was a great and a once in a lifetime experience. At the end George joined us for a chat and some photos despite his busy scౠhedule in between two back-to-back races.
"♈My thanks go to Gareth Thomas-Impey for arranging this all and off course to George Russel and the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team."
Returning♈ to Silverstone this weekend, Zhou's crash and the expert reaction from the marshals is sure to be remembered and repl🦹ayed.
James was a spo𒉰rts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
