Maria de Villotta injured in testing

[strad]

it should never had the lift deck down.

It wasn't...At the time of the accident it was part way down...Down would have been fine,,having it at drivers head height wasn't.
Perhaps that's it..In other pictures it was on the ground. Maybe she thought it still was and that at worst she would be putting a wheel up onto it and/or didn't see it at all.
You can see here she did not run into the side or the back but at an angle perhaps making it even more invisible to her.

[bhall]

I don't know how she's still alive. That's what I think every time I see that picture.

I think the looks on the faces of the two people immediately in front of her say it all. That man looks like he's about to lose his lunch, and the woman appears as if she simply does not understand what it is she's seeing.

[PlatinumZealot]

I would lost all continence. It' just amazing to think that her head was what that stopped the car.

It's going to be difficult seeing her with an eye patch, I hope the eyelids are not too damaged so that she can at least were a glass eye. I think they should keep her on as the third driver even giving her a race or two. I think drivng the F1 car with one eye should be that much different. Coming from work I closed one eye to see how much vision I lost. I could still see my mirrors. Only extreme periphery was lost. Maybe she won't be able to drive a Monaco, but a Silverstone or a Spa should be doable.

[bhall]

Sadly, her driving career is over. Stereopsis, or depth perception, requires binocular vision.

But, she's alive. I've got to imagine that I would trade any career for life at that point.

[stefan_]

Any information about what chassis did she use that day?

[marcush.]

the picture from above tells the story...
The awning was erased to lign up with the truck -which was parked hard up to the fence ...so that really was a given...then you have to locate the pitarea which was a realistic distance to the tent -representing the distance to the pitgarage entry.
They could not move the pit box further away from the truck ,as the car then would not be able to enter the pitslot in paralell......

[Fred444]

A woman, a fast car and a straight line for publicity purposes.

It was a recipe for disaster in the first palce.

Thats not having a go at women drivers as such, just that she was only there for publicity and not up to the standard of driver that would usually be testing.

Anyway regardless of how it came about thats nasty is that crash. Very bad she lost her eye, but the only real important thing is she keeps her life so good luck to her.

[Raptor22]

drivers don't need a super licence to drive an F1 car outside of a GP... Get over it.

Give up this "She's not up to the standard" BS.

[jdlive]

A woman, a fast car and a straight line for publicity purposes.

It was a recipe for disaster in the first palce.

Thats not having a go at women drivers as such, just that she was only there for publicity and not up to the standard of driver that would usually be testing.

Anyway regardless of how it came about thats nasty is that crash. Very bad she lost her eye, but the only real important thing is she keeps her life so good luck to her.

I'm above all glad she didn't kill any of the other people there, which was a close call as well according to the eyewitness.

Some (a lot) of you here are very forgiving towards something that only occurred because everyone is out to gain as much money as possible. She should never have been there in the first place, period. What would you all have said if she killed other people?

[Raptor22]

She's driven the car before so why is her competency in question?

[thearmofbarlow]

She's driven the car before so why is her competency in question?

Because idiocy is unbounded.

[bhall]

This accident will reignite whatever subject people chose to inflame. For some, that will be to question women's place in motorsport. But, they'll likely just allude to it, because, ironically, they usually don't have the stones to be forthright about their feelings.

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[jdlive]

She's driven the car before so why is her competency in question?

Because idiocy is unbounded.

Letting someone drive an F1-car for publicity reasons, possibly endangering other people's lifes, that is idiocy. What I and others said is what most insiders thought beforehand but what you (hopelessly) politically correct emo's apparently don't dare to say.

[coaster]

I pray she is fully recovered soon, why the heck is Marussia putting a tray truck into harms way?

[bhall]

[Nevermind. Delete at will.]