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Title: Maria de Villota
Post by: Nickbat on 03 July 2012, 11:25:51
Hope she's OK, but it doesn't sound good.  :( :(

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/marussia/9372244/Maria-De-Villota-sustains-life-threatening-injuries-testing-Marussia-Formula-One-car.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/marussia/9372244/Maria-De-Villota-sustains-life-threatening-injuries-testing-Marussia-Formula-One-car.html)
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: aaronjb on 03 July 2012, 11:43:28
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Marussia's test driver was hurt after her car hit a stationary lorry parked on the track while straight-line testing at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.

How is a situation like that, in closed testing, even allowed to happen :-\ I know we all bemoan the H&S killjoys, but, really!

It does say it was 'low speed' but I imagine an F1 car would submarine quite happily under most trucks and probably come close to decapitating the driver..
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: bigboykarl on 03 July 2012, 11:43:38
women drivers
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: aaronjb on 03 July 2012, 11:55:55
Not sure she'll walk away from this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18685789

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BBC Cambridgeshire presenter Chris Mann, who witnessed the crash, said the car had completed a circuit when it "suddenly accelerated" into the back of the lorry.

"From where I was standing it looked like the helmet took the brunt of the impact," he said.

"Strangely, the car suddenly accelerated into the lorry and the car went careering into the side of the loading board."
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: tunnie on 03 July 2012, 12:02:08
It was Marussia team which failed crash tests too  :(

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/177152/1/crash_test_failure_to_leave_marussia_untried.html (http://www.crash.net/f1/news/177152/1/crash_test_failure_to_leave_marussia_untried.html)
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: Varche on 03 July 2012, 13:14:18
That is grim .
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: aaronjb on 03 July 2012, 16:26:53
Apparently she is conscious and talking.. according to the DM, anyway: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168068/Maria-De-Villota-Female-racing-driver-fighting-life-inexplicably-accelerating-car-support-truck.html
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: Kevin Wood on 03 July 2012, 16:31:40
Hmm. That sounds really nasty. :(
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: aaronjb on 04 July 2012, 17:02:17
I'm guessing that's the end of her racing career: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18711127

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Maria de Villota: Driver loses right eye after crash
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: The Red Baron on 04 July 2012, 17:05:34
didnt she hit a tail lift on a truck?. lucky to be alive if you ask me. very sad indeed.
Title: Re: Maria de Villota
Post by: Kevin Wood on 04 July 2012, 17:30:29
Indeed. How desperately sad to be cut down like that the first time she drove the car.  :(

Quote from: aaronjb on 04 July 2012, 17:02:17
I'm guessing that's the end of her racing career: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18711127

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Maria de Villota: Driver loses right eye after crash