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[f1ea]

Heidfeld has been confirmed as Kubica's replacement. Hopefully he will have a good season, or part-season at least. A wise choice from Renault and good to see Nick in a car again, although the circumstances are not those any of us would really have liked, I'm sure.

yup, its official
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[Hammer278]

Best news ever, since hearing the Kube has a good chance of making a full recovery.

Go get em Nick!!!

[What's Burning?]

over on GPUpdate.

Rubens Barrichello is delighted to announce that has been the recipient of a phone call from injured friend Robert Kubica who, after defying the odds to escape a freak rally crash in Italy ten days ago, is now making a slow recovery in hospital.

Wednesday will see Kubica go under the knife for a fourth operation, with the first having been seven-hour surgery as he was first admitted to hospital.

‘Guess from who I received a call today??’ Barrichello typed on his personal Twitter feed. ‘Robert Kubica...thank GOD he is ok, talking normally...I was so happy...’

[vlad]

He had a successfull operation once again, this was the last one, now we wait and see how soon he recovers...

[Robert12010]

He had a successfull operation once again, this was the last one, now we wait and see how soon he recovers...

[McLaren]

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Blimey i didn't realise he was still in hospital.

get well soon good luck with the rehab

[darwin dali]

Update on his plans - he wants to do a practice session some time this year!

[spankyham]

Update on his plans - he wants to do a practice session some time this year!

Excellent news!

[nish2280]

Cant wait!

I think the reason he wont take part in a race this year is because of Heidfeld's contract, but then again it probably really hard to get back to prime fitness when you have been sitting around in a bed for the last few months.

[Hammer278]

Honestly, I dont see how he can come back to F1. Massa's crash in the head has caused him to lose his edge, Kubica's accident is 10 times worse.

You could say Mika had life threatening injuries (coma) and came back to win WDCs but there was no doubt about physical capabilities to recover from. Kubica's injuries will take a lot longer than end of this year to be back to 100%.

[What's Burning?]

Fundamentally there isn't anyone that doesn't want to see Robert recuperate and come back to F1, but this guy is lucky to be alive and he's got a phenomenally difficult recovery road ahead of him. Just being able to walk, talk and use his hand is a success story. The fact that he's setting the goal himself at a Friday practice session is great, but he may never come back to F1, and if that does happen no one should see it as a failure!

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

I've found it a bit unsettling from the start that there's been so little reliable information about the nature and extent of Kubica's injuries. Maybe I just was looking in the wrong places but the information seemed more forthcoming from the Massa incident. To me, this reeks of a an attempt to conceal. At the very least it meant his injuries were more critical than they were letting on.

As for Massa, he only fell to sixth in WDC in 2010. Considering the stiffer competition (in the guise of Lewis Hamilton and the Red Bulls), I hardly consider this a precipitous decline.

[vlad]

There are few photos of Robert, first after the accident! I'll put them here:

[vlad]

^^^
Damn hospital food. He is so skinny...

[texasmr2]

This year's F1 battle is not the same without him imho. It is fantastic to see up and about so for that I am grateful .