The Al🎶fa Romeo driver was sent airborne at high-speed during a multi-car, first-lap accident involving George Russell and Pierre Gasly which resulted in last Sunday’s race at Silverstone being suspended for more than 40 minutes. 

After skating along the run-off and gravel upside down, Zhou’s car barrel-rolled over the tyre barrier before hitting the catch fencing and landing upside down. Miraculously, Zhou emerged from the wreckage unscathed and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:credited the𝕴 Hal💮o for saving his life. 

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Speaking at length during his firs♍t media session since the horrific upside-down crash, Zhou opened up as he recalled the incident and his subsequent esඣcape. 

“Once the flip happened, the first thing I was trying to do was trying to rele♒ase my hand off the steering wheel,” Zhou explained. 

“Because you never know, you can break your hand very easily with a crash like that, and while I was just rolling on the ground I knew that I’d beꦕ facing a massive impact coming up because the car wasn’t stopping.

“I tried to lock myself in a position that is the most safest possible, just waiting🐭 for the last impact. Just holding the hand backwards,🧸 but I keep it reasonably tensioned so it doesn’t go flying around when you have that last impact. So that was the case.

“Once I was stopped, I didn’t know where I was, because I was upside down, and the net thing I felt was some [fluid] leaking. I wasn’t sure if it𝓀🌃 was from my body or from the car. 

“So I just tried to switch offꦛ the engine because the engine was still on by then. I knew if a fire started it will be difficult ♚to get out, so o I switched my engine off, and then everything was fine.”

'I didn't know where I was'

When asked how he managed to get out o𝔍f the 📖car, Zhou said: “I kind of slid myself a little bit out.

“So at least to have my leg, my feet already kind of out of the top of the seat. And 🔜they wer🔯e able to pull me out.

“I didn’t realise I was between the barriers. I was thinkജing I was next to the barriers. But I was actually between the barrier and the fe🌺nce, which I don’t know how I survived.

“But looking back, obviously, thꦦe Halo I saw saved me.”

Zhou will get the chancꦕe to put the crash immediately behind him when he competes at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. 

"Already on Sunday I watched the ra♓ce𝓰 back,” he added. “I didn't feel sick watching it or have that feeling.

"I feel like I was able to digest a bit myself, so I wa🔥s happy mentally just having one day off and then went back into checking my physical condition. For me it wasn't a concern.

"Obviously 𒉰there are times you do something and yo🦂u need a bit of mental help, but this time I didn't feel it was needed.

“Sunday night I was texting all my engineers asking, is my seat OK? For drivers the seat is very important. It's been very comfortable so far, 🐽but it can be different even if they try to do the same.”

Russell was one of the first on the sce𝓡ne of the accident after he aba🌌ndoned his damaged Mercedes to run over to Zhou and check on the F1 rookie’s condition. 

Speaking separately to Sky, Zhou praised Russell’s reaction, saying: “I knew there was one man there, making conversation with me to make sure I was OK. L🥀ooking at the pictures, it was George. Respect to him. It was very 🦄sportsmanlike.”