SHANGHAI — British racing driver Ollie Millroy says he owes his life to fellow competitor Loek Hartog, after the Dutch driver stopped his own car mid-race and pulled Millroy from a burning Ferrari following a horrific multi-car crash at the China GT Championship in Shanghai on Saturday.

The crash occurred roughly 20 minutes into the opening race of the weekend at Shanghai International Circuit. According to Motorsport.com, the incident began as Neil Verhagen’s BMW battled David Chen’s Ferrari on the approach to Turn 14, with Verhagen moving partly onto the grass while attempting to pass and losing control of his car on the damp surface, making contact with Chen’s Ferrari. Both cars then slid toward the hairpin, where Millroy’s AAI Motorsports Ferrari was struck from the side and immediately caught fire. The race was red-flagged on the spot.

Millroy, 36, suffered five broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, a broken hand and finger, and a bruised lung in the crash, according to details he shared publicly. In a social media post following the incident, Millroy described the extent of his gratitude toward Hartog, the 23-year-old Dutch driver who stopped his own Porsche to help.

“I am still alive tonight, entirely thanks to one man,” Millroy wrote. “Loek Hartog stopped instantly with no flag marshals or fire crews in sight and risked his own life to get me out of the car. I don’t remember anything between 30 seconds before the crash and one hour after it, but I will remember his incredible act of bravery for the rest of my life.”

Millroy went further in describing the lasting impact of Hartog’s actions on his family.

“One day I will tell our three kids this story and Loek will be the biggest superhero in history in their eyes too,” Millroy wrote. “Thank you Loek. I owe you my life for your selfless act today.”

On-board footage from Hartog’s Phantom Global Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo captured the rescue in real time, showing the Dutchman stopping near the accident scene, climbing out of his own car and running toward Millroy’s burning vehicle without hesitation. According to SportsCar365, Hartog first attempted to free Millroy by ripping off the passenger’s side door before someone, possibly a track marshal, handed him a fire extinguisher. Hartog then used the extinguisher to knock down enough of the flames to climb into the cockpit himself and pull Millroy to safety.

Speaking about his own decision to stop and intervene, Hartog described his actions as instinctive rather than deliberate.

“When I saw a car turning into a huge fireball far ahead, there wasn’t really a decision to make,” Hartog said.

The rescue has drawn scrutiny toward the speed and adequacy of the official emergency response at the circuit. AAI Motorsports co-driver Yin Yu Chen criticized what she described as a delayed response from track personnel following the crash.

“For about a minute and a half, Ollie was left alone in the car without any immediate assistance from the fire brigade or emergency services,” Chen said. “For this reason, I must thank Loek Hartog for everything he did today. He didn’t hesitate for a single moment to stop and come to Ollie’s aid when he needed help the most.”

Chen said her team accepted that motorsport inherently carries risk but believed the response to Saturday’s accident specifically fell short of an acceptable standard.

Millroy’s team, FIST Team AAI, issued a formal statement following the incident announcing that it would withdraw entirely from the remainder of the China GT Championship season. The team’s statement pushed back directly against early characterizations of the incident during the event’s live broadcast.

“It is particularly distressing that during the live broadcast, the organizers did not verify the situation on the scene, and hastily said the drivers left the cars on their own,” the team wrote. “The actual situation is: our driver was rescued from the burning car by Loek Hartog, regardless of his own safety.”

The team said it is demanding a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash, including questions related to circuit safety protocols, the accuracy of the event’s live broadcast coverage, and the dissemination of official information about the incident in its immediate aftermath.

Team owner Betty Chen separately addressed the incident in her own social media post, emphasizing that the team’s primary concern remained Millroy’s well-being even as questions about the emergency response continued to circulate.

“The most important thing is that Ollie is okay,” Chen said, according to Yahoo Sports’ account of her statement. “Things could have turned out very differently.”

Hartog, a former Porsche Motorsport North America Selected Driver, has drawn widespread praise across the motorsport community following the rescue, with fans and fellow competitors describing his split-second decision to abandon his own competitive race in order to assist a rival driver in immediate danger as an extraordinary act of selflessness under extreme pressure.

Millroy has continued expressing gratitude publicly in the days since the crash, closing his initial social media statement by thanking the broader racing community for its support during his recovery.

“Thank you to everyone for your kind messages,” Millroy wrote. “I’m counting my lucky stars tonight.”

As Millroy continues recovering from his injuries away from competition, questions surrounding the circuit’s emergency response protocols and the accuracy of the event’s official broadcast are expected to remain a point of scrutiny for organizers of the China GT Championship, particularly given FIST Team AAI’s decision to withdraw from the remainder of the season and its explicit call for a full investigation into what went wrong during the critical minutes following Saturday’s crash. For now, the incident has been defined publicly not by the failures in the emergency response, but by Hartog’s split-second decision to risk his own safety in order to save a fellow competitor’s life on the track.

President Donald Trump on Monday said Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier should no longer be allowed to sell its planes in the United States unless it manufactures them domestically.

In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed that more than half of Bombardier’s revenue comes from U.S. customers and accused Canada of imposing “unfair” restrictions on American companies.

“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!” Trump wrote. “Their products aren’t good enough!”

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Trump said Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier should no longer be allowed to sell its planes in the United States unless it manufactures them domestically. (Al Drago/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER!”

Trump added, “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank.’ BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST!”

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In a Truth Social post, Trump argued that more than half of Bombardier’s revenue comes from U.S. customers.  (Bombardier)

Trump’s latest remarks come amid a widening trade dispute between the United States and Canada.

Earlier this year, Trump threatened to decertify Bombardier Global Express business jets and impose 50% tariffs on Canadian-made aircraft unless Canada certified several Gulfstream business jets, according to Reuters. 

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President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office at the White House on May 6, 2025, in Washington, DC.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Canada later approved certification of the Gulfstream aircraft, the outlet reported.

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Bombardier and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office did not immediately respond to FOX Business requests for comment.

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NEW YORK — Robert Kiyosaki, the author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” used a weekend social-media post to spotlight an old Bitcoin purchase even as a Vanity Fair profile and a string of follow-up stories put a $1.2 billion debt figure back in circulation.

TheStreet reported that on Sept. 5 Kiyosaki wrote on Facebook that he once paid $400 for a single bitcoin. He framed the holding as proof that buying early and waiting matters more than chasing a peak. The same report said commenters immediately pressed him about the debt number he has repeated for months. TheStreet also noted that some of the price details in that post did not match market records: Bitcoin’s high near $126,080 on Oct. 6, 2025, left the coin well above $20,000 even after a steep pullback.

The debt figure is not new. Kiyosaki has used it on podcasts and on social media since at least 2025. On the “Get Rich Education” podcast in June he said, “So, I’m a billion two in debt.” He added a warning in the same breath: “Should not do what I do, right? But I studied it since 1974… If you’re going to learn to use debt, you’d better take some education.” He has said Dave Ramsey’s stay-out-of-debt message “is good for most people.”

In an earlier appearance, when asked whether that much leverage made him nervous, he laughed. “Are you shitting me?” he said. “No. I’ll tell you why. If you owe the bank $20 million and you can’t pay it back, you got a problem. But you owe the bank $1 billion and you can’t pay it back, it’s their problem.”

That line is a modern version of an old banking joke. It is also the core of the argument he has sold since “Rich Dad Poor Dad” first appeared in 1997: treat borrowing used to buy income-producing assets as different from borrowing used to fund a lifestyle. On “The Hannah Hammond Show” he put it this way: “Debt is money. My poor dad always says, ‘Get out of debt.’ Dave Ramsey says, ‘Get out of debt.’ My rich dad says, ‘Only lazy people use their own money — your job is to borrow money.’” In a March 2025 post he posed the contrast as a contest. “My friend Dave Ramsey says ‘Live debt free.’ I say ‘I use debt to invest. I am $1.2 billion in debt.’ Again, who is right?”

Kim Kiyosaki, his former wife and still a partner in the businesses, told Vanity Fair the headline number is “widely misunderstood.” She said it is the total debt on a real-estate portfolio owned with partners, not a personal unsecured tab. “We have a lot of apartment houses with our partners,” she said, putting the count at about 1,500 units. “So technically, yes, we have all this debt,” she added, but it is attached to those assets. Vanity Fair, working from Kiyosaki’s own claim that he earns about $3 million a year, estimated his personal slice could be in a range of $30 million to $60 million. “He loves to say things that shock,” Kim Kiyosaki said, so that he can then “explain it in more detail, why investment debt is good.”

Kiyosaki described the legal structure in the same profile. “If it all comes to hell, you can talk to my attorney,” he said. “Firewalls — that’s the way the rich play the game.” The magazine said properties sit in separate limited-liability companies, a common real-estate practice meant to isolate one building’s problems from the rest of a portfolio.

That is leverage on apartments. The weekend Facebook post was about something else: a scarce digital asset he has promoted for years as a hedge against what he calls “fake” dollars. On X he has written, “The rich do not save money. Since 1965 I have saved real silver. Since 1971 I have saved real gold. Since 2012 I have saved Bitcoin. Since 2022 I have saved Ethereum.” He has also said he later stopped buying at certain prices — silver near $60, bitcoin near $6,000, gold near $300 — and that he has sold some bitcoin and gold because he dislikes capital-gains taxes. Those posts sit alongside other messages in which he told followers he keeps buying. The record is not a single, tidy trading log. It is a public sales pitch that has shifted with the market.

He has attached large price targets to the same assets. After what he calls a crash, he has predicted gold at $35,000 an ounce, silver at $200, bitcoin at $750,000 and ether at $95,000. He has separately talked about bitcoin at $250,000 in 2026. Those forecasts have missed earlier deadlines. In 2024 he said bitcoin would hit $350,000 by late August of that year. It did not.

The tension in the current coverage is therefore not whether Kiyosaki likes debt. He has said so for decades. It is whether a $1.2 billion partnership liability and a $400 bitcoin souvenir belong in the same sentence as proof of the same method. One is borrowed money sitting on rental buildings whose tenants, in his telling, service the loans. The other is an unlevered bet he says he made when the coin was cheap. Mixing them makes for a sharp headline. It does not make them the same risk.

“Rich Dad Poor Dad” has sold more than 40 million copies and turned a parable about two father figures into a seminar, radio and product business. Kiyosaki, 79, co-wrote books with Donald Trump, including “Why We Want You to Be Rich.” He still tells audiences that cash savers are “the biggest losers” and that U.S. national debt — now above $40 trillion on Treasury’s published totals — will punish people who hold dollars. He has called the 401(k) “the biggest mistake I think ever made” and said it will “decimate” baby boomers.

Critics answer that his crash timetable has slipped for years, that bitcoin remains volatile — it has fallen tens of thousands of dollars from its 2025 high — and that most households cannot borrow against apartment blocks. Kiyosaki himself has said they should not copy him without education. “If you can’t manage debt — live debt-free,” he said on another podcast. “But the opposite side of that is to learn to handle debt.”

What the latest cycle of stories actually established is narrower. Kiyosaki keeps advertising a $1.2 billion debt total. His longtime business partner says the number belongs to a group that owns about 1,500 apartments, and that his own share is far smaller. He keeps pointing to hard assets and to an early bitcoin purchase he now values as a lesson in timing. Followers used the comment thread on that purchase to ask about the debt. He has not posted a personal balance sheet that would settle the argument. Until he does, the public record is the one he chose: a shocking figure, a partner’s clarification, and a $400 coin he wants remembered as the smart side of the ledger.