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Posted on Saturday, December 21, 2013

Season review: F1 2013 DVD - 'Who can stop him?'

Reviewing the F1 2013 official season review on DVD. Another season of Formula 1 racing coming to an end means that it’s time for the annual DVD review, which has been released just in time for the festive period, giving racing fans the excuse to lock themselves away from the rest of the family to re-live the 2013 season. It’s fair to say that 2013 wasn’t the best year in the history of the sport, but the DVD does a good job of capturing the […]

Posted on Saturday, October 12, 2013

De Villota death related to testing accident

The family of Maria de Villota have said that her death was caused by injuries sustained in her testing crash in 2012. De Villota was found dead in a hotel early on Friday morning in Seville. De Villota was returning to the pits at Duxford Aerodrome in July 2012 when her Marussia car struck a team support truck. She sustained serious skull injuries and lost the use of her right eye. 'Maria left us while she was sleeping, approximately at 6am, as a consequence of […]

Posted on Friday, October 11, 2013

Formula 1 paddock pays tribute to de Villota

Members of the Formula 1 paddock have been paying tribute to Maria de Villota, who has died at the age of 33. De Villota, who survived a horrific testing accident in 2012, was found dead in a hotel room in Seville. Jean Todt: FIA president: "Today is a tragic day for motor sport. My deepest condolences go to the De Villota family. Maria was a fantastic driver, a leading light for women in motor sport and a tireless campaigner for road safety. Above all, she […]

Posted on Friday, October 11, 2013

Maria de Villota found dead in Spain

Maria de Villota has been found dead in a hotel room in Spain. Reports in the Spanish media state that emergency services were called to a hotel room in Seville, but efforts to revive her were unsuccessful. She was 33. 'Dear friends: Maria has left us', her family posted on Facebook. 'She had to go to heaven like all the angels. We thank God for the extra year and a half he left her with us.' Formula 1 pays tribute to Maria de Villota De […]

Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2013

De Villota to return to F1 paddock this weekend

Ten months after her Marussia testing crash, Maria de Villota will return to a Formula One paddock this weekend in her native Spain. Last July, the 33-year-old was conducting a straightline aerodynamic test at Duxford, UK, when the 2012 Marussia inexplicably accelerated into a truck loading ramp. De Villota, whose father is the former F1 driver Emilio de Villota, sustained serious head injuries and lost her right eye. Scheduled to attend this weekend's Spanish grand prix in Barcelona, she told Europa she is "a little […]

Posted on Wednesday, March 6, 2013

De Villota to work for Spain's F1 TV coverage

Maria de Villota has been signed up as an expert pundit for Spanish television Antena 3's coverage of the 2013 Formula One season. The Spaniard lost an eye in a near-fatal testing crash whilst serving as a Marussia test driver last year, but has made a good recovery. "Last week they gave me permission to return to driving," said the 32-year-old. "The distances I can already calculate quite well and it feels like nothing ever happened." Following Antena 3's launch of its 2013 coverage, Spanish […]

Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Susie Wolff hopes for more F1 testing

Susie Wolff has played down expectations her next step in Formula One is a spot on the grid. Admitting it was an emotional moment in the wake of the injuries sustained earlier in 2012 by Marussia's female test driver Maria de Villota, Wolff got her first taste of a grand prix car on Wednesday at the wheel of last year's Williams. The British team's 29-year-old development driver, a racer in the German touring car championship DTM and married to team official Toto Wolff, drove the […]

Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

De Villota 'terrified' when she saw face injuries

Maria de Villota has revealed she was "terrified" when she saw her facial injuries for the first time. Marussia's female test driver was critically injured when the front of her helmet struck the loading ramp of a transporter during a straightline aerodynamic test earlier this year. She has now spoken for the first time since the accident, giving an interview to the Spanish weekly magazine Hola! The magazine featured de Villota, with short cropped hair and wearing an eye-patch over her lost right eye, on […]

Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

De Villota to make first appearance since injury

Maria de Villota will on Thursday make her first public appearance since losing an eye in a Formula One test crash in early July. Spain's Europa Press news agency said the 32-year-old former Marussia test driver will update the world about her recovery from the serious accident during a press conference in Madrid to also be attended by Spanish motor racing federation chief Carlos Gracia.

Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012

Marussia to conclude de Villota crash caused by 'mistakes'

Marussia is tipped to reveal in the coming days that Maria de Villota's test crash was the result of a "chain of unfortunate circumstances and mistakes". The team recently insisted that, following an internal investigation, a failure of the 2012 car had been ruled out as the cause of the incident. Spaniard de Villota, 32, is currently in a Madrid hospital, having spent 17 days in a Cambridge (UK) hospital recovering from severe head and facial injuries that required the amputation of an eye. "We're […]

Posted on Friday, July 20, 2012

Carlos Gracia criticises Marussia after de Villota crash

Carlos Gracia, the highest-ranking Spanish motor racing official, has criticised Marussia after the team implied Maria de Villota's recent testing accident was her fault. Without actually saying the crash into a stationary truck during straightline aerodynamic testing was driver error, Marussia recently revealed that an internal investigation showed the car had not failed. Asked how he had digested the statement, Gracia - president of Spain's sanctioning body and an FIA vice-president - admitted he read it "with some indignation". "I think it was not necessary […]

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2012

De Villota family not commenting on Marussia statement

Maria de Villota's family is awaiting the findings of subsequent investigations before commenting on the recent Duxford crash. Marussia said in a statement this week that an internal "detailed investigation" showed that the car was not to blame for the 32-year-old Spaniard's crash into a stationary truck. The implication was that driver error was the cause, but the British-based team did not actually say that. An official investigation is being conducted by the Health and Safety Executive, the independent UK regulator for work-related accidents. "This […]