Felipe Massa just had a horrible freakish accident in Hugaroring (Budapest F1 Circuit).  A spring from a Brawn F1 weight 2Lbs was bouncing on the track and hit the driver at 140mph.  He was knocked out unconscious and hit the brakes and throttle at the same time (what the tv comementors here and this one from France, failed to notice, his head tumbles forward, and in a single seater you usually have to lift your feet not to hit the brakes or throttle).



TV frames:

http://www.repubblica.it/2007/03/gallerie/formulauno/massa-incidente/3.

Warning.  This links to a picture of the driver being lifted from the car from a Finish site.  It's a horrible picture, bloods and cuts, don't look if you don't like that kind of thing.  You've been warned.

Aparently he went on surgery and is in stable condition, Barrichello (a fellow Brazilian - and from whose car the spring broke!) and Montoya (aparently a friend) are on twitter talking about the case, Barrichello is sendings updates from the hospital.  Barrichello said the doctors said he is in stable condition (not critical), but AP is saying he is fighting for his life?!  ESPN says it's stable, and he is on artificial respirator.  Some skull bones were removed, sounds serious to me, but I'm no doctor.

This only five days after John Surtees' son (the only Moto GP and F1 champion), 19 year old Henry Surtees, died in another freakish accident (F2 this time) when a tire bouncing on the road from another accident hit his helmet, at 17s below:




Gosh, unbelievable.  What are the odds? 

 Hope he gets well soon.