The Formula One circus is in Jerez this weekend, try out the latest series of race cars before the season starts next month in Bahrain. But something is missing. Someone actually, and that someone Robert Kubica.
The Polish driver in his Lotus-Renault GP team, as you may have heard, is recovering in hospital from injuries substained in a rally accident in Italy that his vehicle was impaled by a roadside guardrail. At the Jerez test his team give a number of drivers - including their own, and Tester Bruno Senna F1 veteran Nick Heidfeld - Kubica a shot at temporary filling his seat, but they are not the only feeling his absence.
The majority of the teams on the grid have set special messages of hope for recovery Kubica somewhere on their cars. Some have mounted on the front fenders, some on the side pods and front keel, while others have placed on the side of the rear wing. But the message is the same: "Robert Szybkiego powrotu do zdrowia" in his native Polish - speedy recovery, Robert. We have assembled a few close-ups of the messages on the Jerez test cars and put them for your viewing pleasure in the gallery below, then click to check 'em out. Thanks for the tip, Arek!
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