In AUTOSPORT magazine this week: Surer on Kubica's crash
Like Robert Kubica, Marc Surer suffered a horrific rallying accident whilst under contract to a Formula 1 team 25 years ago. Adam Cooper interviewed the Swiss for AUTOSPORT magazine in this weeks issue...
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Marc Surer in his Arrows at Imola in 1986, two races before his F1 career ended © LAT
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Following the well-publicised F1 career-stalling shunt for Robert Kubica in a rally, Adam Cooper talks to another man for whom a love of rallying got in the way of the day job. Twenty-five years ago Marc Surer survived a violent accident in which his co-driver, Michel Wyder, was killed.
The Swiss driver talks candidly about that horrific smash in the European Championship Hessen Rally in 1986 aboard a Group B Ford RS200 in which he was badly burned and broke his legs and pelvis. The accident, which occured between the Belgian and Canadian Grand Prix, brought to an end Surer's 76-race F1 career.
Surer empathises with Kubica's desire to get out there and drive, particularly with the monotony of Formula 1 and the tendency for technology to dominate, but warns that Kubica mustn't underestimate his rehabilitation time.
Read the full interview with Marc Surer in this week's AUTOSPORT. Also in this week's magazine...
Mark Hughes - How Williams may have uncovered a technological breakthrough at the rear end of its FW33
Mark Webber - Can the Australian rediscover his mojo after coming so close in 2010? Mark Hughes analyses how the Australian's attitude
Patrick Head - The Williams co-founder explains the thinking behind the team's recent stockmarket flotation announcement
NASCAR preview - Remembering Dale Earnhardt 10 years after his death in the 2001 Daytona 500; Denny Hamlin interview; Stats, facts, dates - and top salaries!
Rally Sweden - Mikko Hirvonen gives the new Ford Fiesta WRC a debut win in the season opener but he has to overcome Norwegian youngster Mads Ostberg first
GP2 Asia, Abu Dhabi - Jules Bianchi breaks his GP2 duck by winning the feature race for Lotus ART, while Stefano Coetti gives Trident its first Asia-series victory
British F3 at 60 - Marcus Pye and Ben Anderson follow 2008 McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award winner Alexander Sims as he samples a selection of machines that have shaped 60 years of Britain's most important single-seater feeder formula
*This week's AUTOSPORT magazine is available in shops now, or can be read in digital form here.
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