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[geetface9]

He'd be an idiot because these guys literally spend most of their lives trying to get to F1, and then go and do something that can break your limbs. I'll say mark webber is just as much of an idiot too for always riding his bike around and breaking his leg and shoulder and such over the last few years. I'd tell him to use a stationary bike. If he really doesn't care about f1 more than riding his mountain bike, then he can feel free, but...such a waste.

It's the same as if I were to spend years of my life studying to become a surgeon, but then I decide to do an activity on very frequent occassion that could break all my fingers...fingers which I need to do my job that I've sacrificed so much to get. It's just DUMB

[Hammer278]

He'd be an idiot because these guys literally spend most of their lives trying to get to F1, and then go and do something that can break your limbs. I'll say mark webber is just as much of an idiot too for always riding his bike around and breaking his leg and shoulder and such over the last few years. I'd tell him to use a stationary bike. If he really doesn't care about f1 more than riding his mountain bike, then he can feel free, but...such a waste.

It's the same as if I were to spend years of my life studying to become a surgeon, but then I decide to do an activity on very frequent occassion that could break all my fingers...fingers which I need to do my job that I've sacrificed so much to get. It's just DUMB

[racechick]

If he was driving it in controlled conditions to get back the feeling of being in a car..well thats one thing. But if he was going at it in race conditions

[andrew]

Or you could look at it as Kubica exploring an alternative to F1.

But from what I have read, he is still 100% trying to get fit for F1, so it just seems stupid to me....

So maybe if he's still aiming for F1 but isn't fit enough for an F1 test but he's keeping his skills up by rallying until he has built up enough strength to drive an F1 car. I'm sure he knows what he's doing.

[zurich_allan]

Or you could look at it as Kubica exploring an alternative to F1.

But from what I have read, he is still 100% trying to get fit for F1, so it just seems stupid to me....

So maybe if he's still aiming for F1 but isn't fit enough for an F1 test but he's keeping his skills up by rallying until he has built up enough strength to drive an F1 car. I'm sure he knows what he's doing.

I agree with this. I think too many people are perhaps jumping on the bandwagon without perhaps looking at the full picture. Rallying is dangerous, but for the professionals not really any more dangerous than any other form of motorsport. The route Kubica was on when he suffered his injury was a particularly dangerous one, and I would certainly criticise that. However what about the route he was driving a couple of days ago? Does anybody know anything about that? If he's trying to get the racing mentality back, and it's a relatively safe route, then given that he's not going to be racing in F1 this season and so likely trying to test his reactions, strengths etc. in an environment where he can easily abandon a stage if he's fatigued without causing danger to himself or others given that rallying is effectively an individual time trial system, I just don't see the problem.

I severely damaged my leg, breaking it in three places and having surgery with titanium pins / screws put in it 16 months ago after somebody put in a horrendous tackle on me in a game of football. I started phsyio 4 months after the surgery which I was in for another 3 months. Two weeks after I finished physio and having done some light jogging, I started playing football again. Could I get injured again? Sure! Will I let that possibility or the thought of it in my mind stop me from doing something that I love? Absolutely not.

[bud]

He'd be better off going out on a track in an open wheeler or a touring car rather than going off road in a rally car if he wanted to get driving strength back up.

[killem2]

He'd be an idiot because these guys literally spend most of their lives trying to get to F1, and then go and do something that can break your limbs. I'll say mark webber is just as much of an idiot too for always riding his bike around and breaking his leg and shoulder and such over the last few years. I'd tell him to use a stationary bike. If he really doesn't care about f1 more than riding his mountain bike, then he can feel free, but...such a waste.

It's the same as if I were to spend years of my life studying to become a surgeon, but then I decide to do an activity on very frequent occassion that could break all my fingers...fingers which I need to do my job that I've sacrificed so much to get. It's just DUMB

Mock him or support him, I think he's got a point. If f1 is your true love, don't go cheating on her.

[LRW]

<snip>.....................Could I get injured again? Sure! Will I let that possibility or the thought of it in my mind stop me from doing something that I love? Absolutely not.

But as you were starting to get back to fitness, and you had the chance of getting back into a top flight team, would you go out and start kickboxing - just to 'keep your fitness up'.....?

[andrew]

This time in a kart.

Good on him!

[LRW]

This time in a kart.

Good on him!

Love it, in that article Flavio Briatore states.... “I have seen him a few times and have told him not to hurry back. You cannot lose your talent.......”

Has Flav not seen Michael Schumacher recently.......?

[bud]

Looks like 4stroke hire karts... Not really the same but still a work out on your arms.

[zurich_allan]

<snip>.....................Could I get injured again? Sure! Will I let that possibility or the thought of it in my mind stop me from doing something that I love? Absolutely not.

But as you were starting to get back to fitness, and you had the chance of getting back into a top flight team, would you go out and start kickboxing - just to 'keep your fitness up'.....?

I understand what you're saying, but that's not a like for like comparison. Rally driving is still just driving unless you make a serious error and fly off the road and hit something. If a professional driver is only going at say 90% of the speed they'd be going at in a race, and on a relatively easy rally stage it's like childsplay to them, no different to you or I driving on a country road at a comfortably safe speed. In kickboxing on the other hand in comparison to football, you're automatically taking repeated strikes to the legs as that's part of the ordinary course of action for that sport. A better comparison would perhaps be - 'would I jump straight into a game of football against Millwall', and the answer would be no, since that would pretty much be kickboxing under the disguise of football...

[Hammer278]

He'd be an idiot because these guys literally spend most of their lives trying to get to F1, and then go and do something that can break your limbs. I'll say mark webber is just as much of an idiot too for always riding his bike around and breaking his leg and shoulder and such over the last few years. I'd tell him to use a stationary bike. If he really doesn't care about f1 more than riding his mountain bike, then he can feel free, but...such a waste.

It's the same as if I were to spend years of my life studying to become a surgeon, but then I decide to do an activity on very frequent occassion that could break all my fingers...fingers which I need to do my job that I've sacrificed so much to get. It's just DUMB

Mock him or support him, I think he's got a point. If f1 is your true love, don't go cheating on her.

It was support.

[LRW]

....... Rally driving is still just driving unless you make a serious error and fly off the road and hit something. ......

I would disagree. I would say even a minor error in Rallying can end in injury. There are soooo many more forms of motorsport that he could be doing to keep up his fitness that are less dangerous. DTM. BTCC. GP2. GP3......

but I agree. He should not try to play a match against Millwall.

[acosmichippo]

Looks like Ferrari is experimenting with new jobs for Felipe within the team. He is under contract, after all.