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The Lotus-Renault team has created a special e-mail address for fans who would like to send words of support and encouragement to injured F1 driver Robert Kubica, who almost lost his right hand in a rally crash last weekend. Notes can be sent to Kubica at fans@lotusrenaultgp.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
The Lotus-Renault team will pass the messages to Kubica, who remains in an Italian hospital as he recovers from surgery following the accident. It may be a year before the Polish driver knows if he’ll regain full use of his hand.
Kubica was critically injured when an Armco barrier pierced the floor of his Skoda in a crash during a rally event in Italy on Feb. 6 and almost severed his right arm in two places.
While his doctors feel Kubica will miss the entire 2011 F1 campaign, don't count out a return to his F1 car this season, something the 26-year-old insisted would happen in an interview last week with Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I want to get back on the track stronger than ever, because after these accidents you aren't what you were before, you improve. It happened to me in 2007 too, after the crash in Canada. I was out for a race and when I got back I was better,” said Kubica, who recalls nothing of the accident.
“Since 2007, I'm stronger head-wise as a driver. And it will be the same again this time, when I'm back in good physical shape. I must return this year.”
Kubica crashed heavily at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix when his car was pushed off the track by another driver at about 300 kilometers per hour and hit a retaining wall. He escaped with a concussion and a sore ankle, and returned to Montreal the next season to score his first F1 win.
He will be facing final surgery on Wednesday.
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