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# Tyre barrier added to Grosjean crash site for Sakhir GP
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/tyre-barrier-added-to-grosjean-crash-site-for-sakhir-gp/
- Published: 2020-12-03T11:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T17:36:31.000Z
- Description: The site of Romain Grosjean’s fiery Bahrain Grand Prix crash has been reinforced with a tyre barrier ahead of this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix
- Author: Valentin Khorounzhiy
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-center-center

The site of Romain Grosjean’s fiery Bahrain Grand Prix crash has been reinforced with a tyre barrier ahead of this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix.

Grosjean’s Haas VF-20 hit the guardrail on the right side of the track coming out of Turn 3 at around 137mph (220km/h), piercing the railing and leaving the front of the demolished car embedded in the guardrail.

The splitting of the guardrail was mentioned as a point of concern by both Grosjean’s fellow Grand Prix Drivers Association director [Sebastian Vettel](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/why-vettels-so-upset-by-barrier-failure-and-what-comes-next/) and F1 sporting director [Ross Brawn](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/brawn-certain-halo-saved-grosjeans-life/) in the aftermath of the crash, which is now being [investigated by the FIA](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/grosjean-crash-investigation/).

While F1 race director Michael Masi indicated there would be no “knee-jerk reaction” to the accident, a tweak has been made for the upcoming Sakhir GP, which takes place at the same track on the following weekend after the Bahrain GP albeit on a different, [streamlined layout](https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bahrain-outer-wacky-race/).

Masi’s pre-event notes have revealed that “two rows of tyres with conveyor belt will be installed on the right-hand side between T3 and T4”.

The belt-constricted tyre stacks will be added in addition to the guardrail, which has been re-built after the rest of the Bahrain GP was run with a replacement concrete barrier in place.

[Nov 30 : Bahrain Grand Prix review](https://www.spreaker.com/episode/42231931?ref=the-race.com) 

The notes also communicated tweaks to a section of the track specific to Bahrain outer – the fast sequence of corners on the opposite side of the main straight.

A right-hand kerb between Turn 8 and Turn 9, which set up the run down to the final section of two right-handers, has been removed “to reduce the risk of a car becoming airborne while the Outer circuit layout is being used”, while a tyre barrier at Turn 9 has been extended and increased in depth.