Formula 1 drivers have provided their perspectives of Romain Grosjean’s “horrible” fiery accident on the opening lap ☂of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Contact with Daniil Kvyat sent Grosjean s🔯pearing off into the Turn 3 barriers, an impact which ripped his Haas car in half before it dramatically burst into flames.

The Frenchman miraculou🔜sly survived the horrific crash and was able to clamber out of his wrecked car with the aid of the medical team. Grosjean has since been taken to hospital with a suspected broken rib and burns to his hands and ankles.

F1 boss Ross Brawn says the championship will launch a “deep investigation” into Grosjean’s horrendous incident, adding “there’s absolutely no doubt the H👍alo was the factor that saved the day and saved Romain”.

❀After the race finished f♏ollowing lengthy delays, the drivers gave their reaction to Grosjean’s first-lap shunt.

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton praised the work of the FIA to improve ꦅstandard and said Grosjean’s “horrifying” accident acted as a reminder of the danger drivers face in F1.

"It was such a shocking image to seꦆe," Hamilton said.

"When I get in the car, I know that I'm taking risk, and I respect the dangers that a🍷re in this sport. I posted about it [on social media] whilst I was in that break because it's horrifying.

"The coc🐷kpit, I don't know what Gs he pulled, but I'm just so grateful that 🦹the halo worked.

"I'm grateful the barrier didn't slice his he꧋ad off or something like ♏that. It could have been so much worse."

Sebastian Vettel admitted it was not eas✅y to view the footage of the acci💦dent. 

“I haven’t looked at the images a lot because I didn’t really want to, but the ma𒅌in thing is he got out. I don’t know how to be honest,” said Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel.

“But obviously the guardrail is not supposed to fail like that. I mean it’s good the cars are safer than they used to🌸 be in the past but th🥂e guardrail shouldn’t fail and the car shouldn’t catch fire in that fashion.

“There are a lot of precautions so that it doesn’t fail, so I don’t know what happened there. I think it’s difficult to say at this stage but the main thing is ob🐽viously that he got o🐟ut.”

Kvyat, who was involved in the accident, admitted he was initially anno🔯yed at Grosjean for suddenly moving across on him before realising the true severity of the situation.

“It was a scary 💯moment,” Kvyat explained. “I saw him and at first I was really angry he came across at me like this, I thought what is ⛦he doing? But then my mind changed immediately when I saw in my mirrors the fire and I was just hoping he was OK.

"I didn’t like what I saw in my mirrors and I’m glad he’s OK. This just reminds you what we do is dangero📖us.”

Williams’ George R🍬ussell echoed Brawn’s comments about the role the Halo played in enabling Grosjean to walk away from the crash relatively unscathed.

“I꧋ mean unbelievable,” Russell replied when ♒asked for his reaction.

“Had the halo not been there I’m sure it would have been an incredibly different outcome. The way he walked away anyway was incr🌸edible.

“I’ve not had an update but I think he’s fine from what I understand. Incred⭕ible. I guess safet🌺y has moved along so much in recent years so we can only be grateful.”

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc described how he witnessed the crash live in his mirror🌟s, before immediately r🍸adioing in to his team to ask for an update on whether the drivers involved were OK.

“I saw it live in my mirrors and I came straight away on the rad𒈔io, I was very worried if you hear my radio messages,” Leclerc said.

“Obviously I just wanted to have the good news that Romain was OK. Arriving into Turn 9 I still had no news and I saw the fire so I was starting to worry a lot. But luckily he’s fine but I don’t know how 🧸fine he is let’s say, but the good thing is he jumped out of the car, and it’s incredible.

“I mean if you see the crash, also me I struggle to believe once 𒐪he jumped out of the car. C🌼ongratulations for the guys that are doing the safety.”

Piere Gasly was left shocked after seeing th🍃e꧙ replays of the accident on TV during the red-flag period, and revealed the he immediately sent a message to his compatriot wishing him a speedy recovery.

“Honestly it was horrible,” Gasly added. “Initiallyꦫ I didn’t k🐠now what had happened and when I saw the images I was shocked because from my generation I have never seen things like this.

“In the past it was more common but it was really scary. ꦡWhen I saw Romain had got out of the car I was happy to see him jumping out. I had no idea that Formula 1 cars could break that way and especially go t🌞hrough the barriers.

“The Halo seemed to be particularly working and during 🦩the 𝐆red flag I sent him a text wishing him a good recovery. It was just a really scary thing to see.”

Despite seeing his hopes of a deserved podium cruelly taken away due to a late engine fa💧ilure three laps from home, Racing Point’s Sergio Perez said Grosjean’s accident brought thinಞgs into perspective for him.

“It was a scary accident, and to know that we need to get back into the 🐈car in a couple of minutes was a big shock,” the out-of-contract Mex😼ican explained.

“I was just a bit relieved that he was OK with only minor injuries. But to stay in the zone and focus, it was extremely hard. When I had to retire it was a big hit ജpersonally, but after what happened today it really put everything into perspective.

"For me, one podium more, one podium less. It doesn’t matter. The most impor🎉tant thing of the day is that Romain is ꦯwith us.”