{"id":9903,"date":"2010-11-30T06:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9903"},"modified":"2010-11-30T06:40:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:40:44","slug":"kovalainen-in-bed-with-heavy-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kovalainen-in-bed-with-heavy-concussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovalainen in bed with &#8216;heavy concussion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heikki Kovalainen has been ordered to bed for a few days to nurse &#8220;heavy concussion&#8221; sustained at the weekend in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>After clipping a wall, the Lotus driver crashed at the start of the Race of Champions evening in Dusseldorf when the throttle of his Audi R8 stuck open.<\/p>\n<p>Finn Kovalainen, 29, was knocked unconscious for 30 seconds and sent to hospital for checks.<\/p>\n<p>He then had some more checks in Switzerland on Monday and confirmed that he was &#8220;put to bed at home as a precaution&#8221; due to &#8220;heavy concussion&#8221; and a headache.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalainen wrote on Twitter that he will have more tests in the next few days &#8220;as (my) head took a big hit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His girlfriend and passenger Catherine Hyde was also injured in the crash, confirming a hairline fracture of her pelvis and hip, and damaged leg muscles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both of us (are) on bed rest for a while,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heikki Kovalainen has been ordered to bed for a few days to nurse &#8220;heavy concussion&#8221; sustained at the weekend in Germany. After clipping a wall, the Lotus driver crashed at the start of the Race of Champions evening in Dusseldorf when the throttle of his Audi R8 stuck open. Finn Kovalainen, 29, was knocked unconscious &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[2474,5262,5340,517,289],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9904,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions\/9904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}