The American Formula 2 driver Juan Manuel Correa has made his first public statement after his heavy crash in Spa in late August, in which the French pilot Anthoine Hubert was killed.
"The last few weeks have been extremely tough, harder than anything I've ever physically and mentally experienced," Correa said in a statement, "I still process everything that has happened and is happening." After being transferred to a London hospital, the 20-year-old was operated on his right leg for 17 hours. An intervention he classified as "success". Less than two weeks earlier, Correa had awakened from an artificial coma that the doctors had put him through for respiratory arrest.
Correa suffered severe fractures on both legs and a slight injury to the spine in the accident. In two weeks he should be operated again. It would be a "less complex" intervention, it says from his environment. If everything goes according to plan, the driver will be able to leave the London hospital in six weeks.
At the Belgian Grand Prix, Correa drove at full speed into the Frenchman Anthoine Hubert's car parked in a run-off zone next to the carriageway. His car was transverse to the direction of travel, as he had previously driven into the boundary wall. Hubert then died in the Medical Center on the track.