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Per Autosport:
Robert Kubica looks set to miss the start of the new Formula 1 season after suffering multiple fractures to his right arm, leg and hand in a crash on the Ronde di Andora rally on Sunday.
The Polish driver was airlifted to hospital on Sunday morning following a high-speed crash that took place 4.6 kilometres into the opening stage of the event, on a stage near the village of Testico in Italy.
Kubica is understood to have swiped a wall and hit a crash barrier in a Super 2000 Skoda Fabia on the first stage of the rally - which he was competing in shortly after completing the first week of pre-season F1 testing with Renault at Valencia.
According to sources at the event, Kubica was trapped in the car for more than one hour until specialist extraction equipment could get to the scene of the crash.
There are unconfirmed reports that Kubica's injuries were caused by the end of a crash barrier penetrating the footwell of the car - which would explain why his injuries were on his right hand side rather than by the door.
According to a statement issued by Kubica's Renault team, he has been diagnosed with multiple fractures to his right arm, leg and hand.
After being transferred to the Santa Corona Hospital in Pietra Ligure, Kubica underwent surgery on Sunday afternoon for the injuries he suffered - with doctors believed to be focusing their efforts on his injured hand and, in particular, its blood supply.
An update from the hospital in the afternoon said that the operation on Kubica would continue until Sunday evening. And although amputation of the hand had been ruled out, it was too early to give a prognosis on how well the hand would recover from the injuries it suffered.
It was also confirmed that Kubica was out of immediate danger, and there was no threat to his life. His co-driver Jakub Gerber was not hurt.
Kubica's injuries look almost certain to prevent him starting the season for Renault, with the first race of the campaign due to take place in Bahrain on March 13.
Renault will likely call on reserve driver Bruno Senna to fill in in the short term, but the team could opt for a more experienced driver if Kubica faces a more lengthy lay-off.
Get well soon RK
Did anyone see Senna throwing tacks onto the road just before the accident?
Get well soon RK
Did anyone see Senna throwing tacks onto the road just before the accident?
That isn't funny.
It really was shocking news when I heard about this happening this morning. We can just all hope that it turns out not to be as bad as is feared / rumoured. Even if the injuries are as bad, we can still hope that the recovery goes well.
Nowhere near as bad obviously, but I was in a similar situation in early November last year after whilst playing football someone put in a horrendous tackle on me from behind, breaking my left leg in three places and detaching a section of my ankle joint completely away from the leg, whilst crushing part of what was left. I had surgery to put everything back together in which they found a further complication that made fixation with titanium screws etc very difficult - the operation took substantially longer than it should have. Then I nearly died from complications resulting in my being on life support for 14 hours.
As I say, this was at the start of November - just 3 months ago. My prognosis was not good. Doctors thought I might recover around 50% range of motion in the leg / ankle. I was told I'd almost certainly never play football again, and probably never run again. With careful work and follow up between then and now including so far multiple manipulations of the leg prior to it being fully healed, and now about a dozen sessions of physio since having my 6th cast removed 3 weeks ago the Doctors have been astounded by the progress I've managed to make. I'm now rid of the crutches, using a basic walking stick and hoping to be rid of that in no more than a further two weeks. The most recent tests have put my current range of motion between 70-80%, and moving onto stage two physio next week for a further month or two, they now think that although I'll never get back to 100%, there's a strong possibility I might get back to 90-95%. They've given me the all clear to enter a 10km road race at the end of June and say I can likely get back to playing football again around July as long as everything continues to progress.
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