Oh, damn...
07-03-2012, 09:25 AM
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Oh, damn...
07-03-2012, 12:16 PM
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07-03-2012, 12:41 PM
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"Female racing driver who was seriously injured after 'inexplicably accelerating' F1 car she was testing into support truck..."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1zZga7fKz
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07-03-2012, 03:49 PM
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One report said they were testing on an airfield. Think "Top Gear" test track where there are no real walls that separate track from paddock. Therefore truck and equipment is close to "race" track. This would make it easy to loose control and hit a truck. That's how I understood the reports.
07-03-2012, 04:17 PM
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She's a test driver. She hit the truck/loading dock when pulling into the "pits" (as stated before it was at an airfield so it was makeshift). She was slowing down when all of a sudden she/the car accelerated into the truck for an unknown reason (I saw somewhere they speculated it was an "anti-stall" that could've caused this). That's what I've gathered.
07-03-2012, 04:21 PM
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Figured that from the articles. Just aren't that many female F1 drivers out there. I drove F3 in the 80's and they were
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07-03-2012, 05:06 PM
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07-04-2012, 01:32 PM
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She's probably not going to be a driver anymore.
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...-eye-in-crash/
De Villota loses right eye in crash
Following her accident on Tuesday, doctors have announced that Marussia test driver María de Villota has lost the use of her right eye. The 32-year-old Spaniard, who remains in a critical condition in a Cambridge hospital, suffered a freak crash when her car struck the loading tray of a lorry.
The straight-line aerodynamic test at Duxford Airfield marked the first time that de Villota had driven the Marussia Formula 1 car, having first piloted a Renault at Paul Ricard last year. After being rushed to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge by land ambulance, the Madrid-born driver woke up on Tuesday evening. This preceded a lengthy operation as doctors worked to attend to the serious head and facial injuries which have been suffered; surgery began yesterday afternoon and did not end until this morning.
Following her accident on Tuesday, doctors have announced that Marussia test driver María de Villota has lost the use of her right eye. The 32-year-old Spaniard, who remains in a critical condition in a Cambridge hospital, suffered a freak crash when her car struck the loading tray of a lorry.
The straight-line aerodynamic test at Duxford Airfield marked the first time that de Villota had driven the Marussia Formula 1 car, having first piloted a Renault at Paul Ricard last year. After being rushed to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge by land ambulance, the Madrid-born driver woke up on Tuesday evening. This preceded a lengthy operation as doctors worked to attend to the serious head and facial injuries which have been suffered; surgery began yesterday afternoon and did not end until this morning.
