Formula One: De Villota looking at life beyond track

MADRID: Spanish Formula One driver Maria De Villota said that losing her eye in a July crash has let her see beyond the race track to the important things in life.

De Villota insisted there is a place for women in the male-dominated world of Formula One and she hopes someone will pick up where she left off. The 32-year-old wore a patch over her right eye, which she lost when her car smashed into a support vehicle on July 3 during. “Before, I only saw Formula One, I only saw myself in a car competing and did not see what was important in life, the clarity to say ‘I am alive’,” said De Villota.

“This eye has given me my bearings, given me back what is important, and I accept it with the energy to say I am going to live out this chance 100 per cent.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 12^th, 2012.