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Riku Kuvaja assures MTV3 that Kimi's accident wasn't severe.
Räikkönen hurt his left hand in Swatch Snow Mobile -race in Austria on Saturday. Lotus F1 Team announced on Saturday-evening that Kimi had hurt his hand. According to the Italian Omnicorse.it-website he would also have a deep cut in the hand. Riku Kuvaja calms down the situation to MTV3.
– There's no reason to get worried over this, nothing that spectacular happened. On Saturday he mainly had to go and check to see that everything is in order, Kuvaja says.
Kimi was apparently meant to go on Monday to check his wrist but Kuvaja can't say if he even needed anymore visits to the doctor on Monday. Yet the man assures that there's no reason to worry over Kimi's wrist, the thing has been blown out of proportion.
Source: MTV3
Courtesy: Nicole
"It is a great result that Kubica can now move his hand"
Good news emerged from Italy on Wednesday afternoon: Robert Kubica can move all five fingers on his injured right hand.
The limb was partially severed in a rally crash last Sunday, raising a question mark about the Pole’s future in motor racing.
But his hand surgeon Igor Rossello is quoted by SID news agency: "The operation went perfectly.
"It is a great result that Kubica can now move his hand, because the surgery was long and complicated."
The next hurdle for the 26-year-old Renault driver is an operation not on Thursday as originally scheduled, but instead on Friday, to work on his injured right shoulder and foot.
A few days later, Kubica will return to the operating table for elbow surgery.
Rossello said Kubica then faces a long period of rehabilitation.
"He will need to work hard every day."
Before that, however, the grand prix winner will be interviewed by Liguria police who are investigating the crash, in which Kubica’s Skoda Fabia was skewered by a length of armco barrier.
Renault team owner Gerard Lopez visited Kubica in hospital on Wednesday. He will meet Renault team boss Eric Boullier later today.
"Robert is a great loss for us at the moment that is forcing us to revise our plans. This is clearly a difficult time.
"We don’t know yet if and when Robert will return. If it will be a long recovery and he will not be back this season, we need to rely on an experienced driver.
"The fate of our season will depend on this new driver, as without Robert it is difficult to predict how we will fare. Obviously, we need a driver capable of winning the championship."
Source: Nextgen
Robert Kubica is expected to make a full recovery after he was airlifted to hospital following a high-speed crash in a rally event in Italy on Sunday morning.
Kubica had to be cut from the Skoda Fabia he was driving after his car crashed into a wall during the Rally Ronde di Andora. His co-driver, Jacub Gerber, walked away unscathed.
His Lotus Renault GP team confirmed that Kubica suffered "multiple fractures to his right arm, leg and hand" in the incident, and he underwent surgery at the Santa Corona Hospital near Genoa on Sunday afternoon.
Kubica's agent, Daniele Morelli, is confident his client will be able to return to action.
"The surgeons are trying to restore the functions of his right hand," Morelli said. "They have already revascularized the limb and repaired the bone structure.
"Now they have to think about the muscular functions but Robert has strong character and he will make it."
Fernando Alonso voiced his support for the Renault driver, who is expected to miss the start of the season which begins in Bahrain next month.
"Let's all support Robert Kubica, who suffered an accident today. Besides a great driver, he is a great person," Alonso wrote on his Twitter page.
"I'm thinking of Robert, wish him all the best and hope to see him soon on the track and especially off-track as a friend," Timo Glock said, while Williams' Rubens Barrichello Tweeted: "I would like to ask you for your best wishes to Kubica. He is being operated on right now. We all like him and he deserves all the best."
Source: ESPNF1
