Robert Kubica feared his horror rally crash had left him paralysed, the Polish driver’s manager has revealed.<\/p>\n
After arriving at the Italian hospital in a critical condition last Sunday and having seven hours of surgery, the 26-year-old Renault driver was put in a coma.<\/p>\n
He woke up this week and has been seeing visitors, and according to O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper he feared his badly damaged hand and other fractures and trauma were not his worst injuries.<\/p>\n
“Robert asked me if his accident had left him paralysed, and he asked me to be honest,” manager Daniele Morelli revealed.<\/p>\n
“I told him no, that he had nothing that could not be healed with time,” he added.<\/p>\n
Autosprint claims that Kubica does not yet know all the details of his injuries, including that his right hand had been almost severed.<\/p>\n
The Italian report also said he remembers nothing about the crash.<\/p>\n
Morelli also revealed that Kubica asked for a photograph of the late Pope John Paul II, a fellow Pole, to be at his bedside.<\/p>\n
“Robert is under the effect of sedatives to take away the pain, but I have seen him smiling, he’s okay.\u00a0 The war is over,” smiled Morelli.<\/p>\n
“He is strong and tenacious and he will recover and be stronger than before.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in addition to his other injuries that are publicly known, it has emerged that Kubica has a damaged heel.<\/p>\n
And elbow surgery is currently not possible because it would require the driver to be rolled onto his stomach, and he is also nursing a punctured lung.<\/p>\n
It is understood that Kubica will not require further surgery to his hand.<\/p>\n
His next visitor will reportedly be Giancarlo Fisichella, after Jean Alesi visited him on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“He is particularly pleased to know that he will be able to regain his physical abilities,” the Frenchman is quoted by autohebdo.fr.<\/p>\n
Lotus-Renault team owner Gerard Lopez also visited Kubica on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“The important news is that Robert is alright.\u00a0 We hope he can return soon, because we built this team around him,” he told La Stampa.<\/p>\n
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