12 February,2011 06:52 AM IST | | PA Sport
Injured Lotus Renault Formula One driver Robert Kubica plans to return to racing before the end of the year.
The Pole is responding well to treatment in a hospital in Italy after suffering multiple fractures to his arm and leg and a partially severed right hand following a crash in Sunday's Ronde di Andora rally.
Robert Kubica
Kubica is expected to miss the whole of the 2011 season but he told Gazzetta dello Sport: "I want to return this year."I am really determined to reduce the recovery time with a very defined programme." Kubica had seven hours of surgery after he was airlifted to a hospital in Savona following the crash where doctors worked to reattach his right hand.
"The fingers work and so does the arm, I can feel them," he said. "But I still have to undergo another operation and then I will know."I cannot move much right now. But I don't have much pain because I'm sedated.
"On Saturday I will be able to know what my condition is after I undergo the double surgery (arm and foot). Then there will be the countdown to begin preparation. I only have that in mind."
