Lewis Hamilton’s Bahrain Grand Prix victory wasn’t just a physically exhausting one, but a mentally gruelling challenge, after Romain Grosjean walked away from a fiery crash on Lap 1 that caused a red flag stoppage of one hour and 20 minutes in Bahrain. Hamilton’s 95th Formula 1 win was overshadowed by Grosjean’s horror crash as he speared into the barriers on Lap 1, his Haas instantly going up in flames. The Frenchman was soon seen jumping out of the car and was taken to hospital with burns to his ankles and hands, and suspected broken ribs. The race was immediately red flagged while Grosjean was treated, his car recovered and the barriers repaired, and Hamilton said the break in proceedings was difficult to manage mentally. “Yeah, it really was physically very demanding,” Hamilton said after taking victory in the race. “I think with the break that we had at the beginning, you get into a mindset, you go out and you’ve got a good start and then that 45 [minute] to an hour wait that we had, it’s so easy to step out of the zone.” The Briton eventually won by just 1.254s over Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, the small margin owing to a late Safety Car for Sergio Perez’s retirement, but Hamilton’s win looked far more comfortable throughout the race. According to him though, that was far from the case.