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[nightrider84]

Depressing indeed. Terrible news.

Nothing seems to be going right for the guy.

Oh, and welcome to the forum BTW!

thank you very much mate!

[myownalias]

Although I think that it's a great talent lost from F1; Kubica has no-one to blame but himself; I don't understand why F1 drivers insist on taking part in extracurricular activities that could result in serious injuries in milliseconds, and if I was a team manager, and I had a driver under contract, I would have it written into the contract that dangerous activities are not allowed.

[LewEngBridewell]

Although I think that it's a great talent lost from F1; Kubica has no-one to blame but himself; I don't understand why F1 drivers insist on taking part in extracurricular activities that could result in serious injuries in milliseconds, and if I was a team manager, and I had a driver under contract, I would have it written into the contract that dangerous activities are not allowed.

And that's where Renault massively screwed up. I doubt other teams would have allowed Kubica to go rallying, no matter how much of a talent he is. The risks are too high.

[darwin dali]

MW bicycling, everybody?
Where do you draw the line?

[zurich_allan]

Although I think that it's a great talent lost from F1; Kubica has no-one to blame but himself; I don't understand why F1 drivers insist on taking part in extracurricular activities that could result in serious injuries in milliseconds, and if I was a team manager, and I had a driver under contract, I would have it written into the contract that dangerous activities are not allowed.

And that's where Renault massively screwed up. I doubt other teams would have allowed Kubica to go rallying, no matter how much of a talent he is. The risks are too high.

Relating to both of the above - I mentioned before on the original thread somewhere that the problem is that although some teams (and indeed in similar situations in other sports etc.) might write clauses such as these into a contract - terms of this nature are not actually legally enforceable i.e. a court won't uphold such a term in either a breach of contract case or employment tribunal. These clauses are effectively legally classed as gentlemen's agreements.

In other words - if a F1 driver (who is talented and thus unlikely to be released as a result such as say Alonso, Hamilton, and at the time - Kubica) chooses stubbornly to still take part in activities such as rallying, snowmobiling, jet-ski'ing, ice racing etc. the team couldn't do anything legally about it to stop them even if they had such a clause.

I'm not saying it's right (in fact I think the complete opposite), but that's the situation.