Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Followup: Kubica recovering as Renault weighs potential replacements
The Lotus Renault GP team has issued a further update on the progress of their star driver Robert Kubica. The Polish driver, for those who do not have crashed during the following Ronde Tues Andorra in Italy on Sunday - just weeks before the start of the F1 season - and was flown to a local hospital, where doctors treated him for multiple fractures and severed tendons in his right limbs.
behind with most of the procedures now him, Kubica is aware of (some reports that he was revived from a medically-coma), and talking to his doctors and visits to relatives and colleagues. Later this week, Kubica, additional surgery (for the right shoulder and foot), by a different procedure was followed a few days later to undergo. He expected to remain at the Santa Corona Hospital, where he has been the crash of two or three weeks, after which he expected to be transferred to another place was to rehabilitate it, probably between five months and one year.
With his recovery underway, but a long way, Renault must find someone to temporarily his place for the upcoming season. Although the team has both Bruno Senna and Romain Grosjean - both recent F1 drivers - on contract, the team is supposed to examine all options. Among them are Force India driver Tonio Liuzzi and Nico Hulkeberg that drove both last season and have competitive drivers. Liuzzi lost his seat this year at Force India, has Hülkenberg during a test driver role with the team when he lost his seat at Williams.
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