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The year-old Pole was heading to the start of the Ronde di Andora rally near Genoa when his Skoda Fabia car went off the road at high speed and hit a church wall. Co-driver Jacub Gerber escaped unhurt but Kubica had to be removed from the wreckage and taken by helicopter to the Santa Corona Hospital in Pietra Ligure, where he later underwent surgery. Kubica's manager Daniele Morelli admitted the condition of the driver's right hand was giving particular cause for concern but sounded optimistic that he would eventually recover.
Morelli added that the "clinical situation isn't easy" but denied there was a risk of amputation. I'm already a fan, don't show this again. Send MSN Feedback.
How can we improve? Please give an overall site rating:. Once it had, he managed two laps and 15 overtakes before his sleepy synapses failed him going through the second Lesmo corner, his Maserati clipping the inside kerb before somersaulting off into the parkland.
He capped off his year, fittingly, with victory at Monza, his only win of the campaign, to end up an impressive second in the standings to Ascari. From then, though, there was no stopping Fangio, as he went on a run of four straight championships from to , before calling it a day at the end of After emergency surgery on his potentially life-threatening injuries, Massa was eventually flown back to Brazil, where a steel plate was inserted into his skull.
Seems that he was the same bastard after all. That he went on to show across eight more F1 seasons that he was still an incredibly quick racing driver was the icing on the cake. Double bummer. Still, Brundle recovered sufficiently to be re-signed with Tyrrell for Although Tyrrell were on a predominantly downward trajectory, Brundle finished a gritty eighth in his first race back in Brazil.
And despite the fact that the injuries he suffered in Dallas still give him pain to this day , Brundle went on to have a lengthy Grand Prix career driving for the likes of Benetton, Ligier and McLaren, as well as winning the World Sportscar Championship with Jaguar.
But the fact that he still managed so lengthy a career in the sport is a testament to how good a driver he was. But then, in August , his career trajectory was cruelly blown off course in a sickening F crash at Brands Hatch. It took months of stingingly painful rehabilitation to get Herbert to a point where he could drive again, but Benetton's Peter Collins kept the faith when others wouldn't, signing the plucky Englishman to drive in the season opener in Rio.
At the United States Grand Prix, running some experimental tyres came dangerously close to having fatal consequences for Graham Hill.
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