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 returning this weekend, memorie🌄s of Zhou's incident are fresh.
The Alfa Romeo driver admi🃏tted that he waღs fortunate the survive the terrifying crash.
He believes that the Halo device saved his life, and he was rescued from a trapped positiღon by the marshals.
The incident also involved Russell, who had🐟 clipped Zhou before he flew off the track.
A ye💎ar 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, reveꦓaled: "Today I was a guest of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team.
"All the marshals involved in the incident with Zh𓂃ou last year in Silverstone were invited by George Russell 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 schedule in bet💖ween 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 marsh🅺als is sure to be remembered an🐓d replayed.
James was a sports journa💜list at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
