Robert Kubica has suffered "serious injuries"

JeditOjanen said:
What Pirelli want doesn't matter - it's almost impossible for them to keep a test driver from year to year. Any F1 team with a free seat will be champing at the bit to get a proven driver with experience of next year's tyres, and there's no driver who would refuse a race seat to test with Pirelli.
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why would they want a driver when they could just get a pirreli engineer instead that comes with actual insight rather than someone who can say the tyres are grippy :P
 
The fallacy is that teams will be champing at the bit to get ex Pirelli test drivers.

Ex drivers may get race seats, sure, but having some Pirelli test driver experience is going to be way way down the list of reasons to choose them.

Algursuari is the only one who has mentioned his own name during 'silly season', and I have heard no rumours at all about di Grassi. Its just not the deal clincher people seem to think it is.
 
Skeeter said:
The fallacy is that teams will be champing at the bit to get ex Pirelli test drivers.

Ex drivers may get race seats, sure, but having some Pirelli test driver experience is going to be way way down the list of reasons to choose them.
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Yes, you're absolutely right, I can't see any reason why a team would want the only driver who has knowledge of and was involved in the design of the one component of an F1 car that the teams don't have any knowledge of and did not design.

:rolleyes:
 
It would be nice to see him back in F1 if he ever makes a suitable recovery. I'd of thought a return to rallying wasn't the best idea.
 
Not sure why exactly he can chuck a rally car steering around but not a single seater unless it's just the G forces.

Shame - always liked Kubica and him coming back to Ferrari alongside Alonso would have been mouth watering.
 
tummelv said:
Not sure why exactly he can chuck a rally car steering around but not a single seater unless it's just the G forces.

Shame - always liked Kubica and him coming back to Ferrari alongside Alonso would have been mouth watering.
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I would imagine its down to the G forces involved, some of the corners are going to be 3/4G +, so a lack of muscle in one arm must mean that you quite literally can't keep your hand on the wheel.
 
-westy- said:
I would imagine its down to the G forces involved, some of the corners are going to be 3/4G +, so a lack of muscle in one arm must mean that you quite literally can't keep your hand on the wheel.
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Yeah. He might also still have limited movement which would make it difficult to drive the car in a confined space like a F1 cockpit.
 
-westy- said:
So Kubica himself has said that he can't drive single seaters:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/20351833

Erring on the side of caution, or...?
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Quite sad, looking at that video and how he holds his right hand. Looks so limp and lifeless. I will be astonished if he ever drives an F1 car again. If he were ever to it would be looking in a better state than that right now.
 
Is there any onboard vids of him rallying out there? Would be interesting to see how he uses his weak hand in the cockpit.
 
No there's been no onboard shots whatsoever. I assume this is done purposely by his agents to hide the fact his injured hand is still not (and probably now never will be) 100%.
 
He's clearly got some power with his right hand, as he lifts and grips the wheel at one point on the video, and that part looks perfectly natural. It's the way he holds his hand when it's not doing anything which shows he doesn't have fine control.

It would have been interesting to see him put the gloves on or something to see just how much movement and power he has in his fingers.
 
He had a crash in race he was taking part.
He was leading by much.
He crashed on a tree and car set on fire.so he had to withdraw....crew is all fine
 
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