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GENOA, Italy – Formula One utility parliamentarian Kubica was seriously injured Sun when his rally automobile impact a surround at "high speed," casting doubt on whether he will be on the installation for the move of the Grand Prix flavour incoming month.

"Robert Kubica has been diagnosed with binary fractures to his right arm, handicap and hand," the Pole's Lotus Renault aggroup said in a statement. "He is currently undergoing surgery at the Santa Corona Hospital in Pietra Ligure."

Kubica's life was not in danger and the worst alteration appeared to be to his limbs, topical medical officials said.

"Certainly it is a very ethereal situation, as the prototypal hours always are after a huge trauma, digit in which there could also have been a brawny bleeding," Roberto Carrozzino, a topical health dominance official, told Sky Italia.

The aggroup evidence said that Kubica "suffered a high-speed happening this morning patch competing in the Ronde di Andora Rally."

The ANSA news authority reportable that an operation on the 26-year-old utility began after assistance specialist Igor Rossello was called to the hospital.

Kubica, eighth in terminal year's F1 concern championship, today looks implausible to race at island on March 13.

It was difficult to extract Kubica from the wreckage and he didn't arrive at the infirmary in Pietra Ligure, a small inshore town most 35 miles southwest of Genoa, until most digit hours after the accident, Carrozzino said.

There was no unmediated interpret from the hospital, though they said there would be an update on Kubica's information after in the day.

ANSA said the utility was most 3 miles from the move of the rally when his automobile mitt the agency and impact a wall. Co-driver Jakub Gerber was unhurt, the Lotus Renault aggroup said.

Kubica was due to lead the Lotus Renault F1 aggroup this flavour alongside Vitaly Petrov of Russia, with past therapy utility churchman Senna titled as a third driver. Romain Grosjean, who drove for Renault in 2009, was also titled third utility alongside Senna.

It was not immediately known who would verify Kubica's locate in island should he unable to drive.

Kubica walked absent from a frightening happening at the 2007 river Grand Prix, where his automobile went airborne into a concrete surround before tumble across the track in a descent of debris to become to a rest with only the cockpit intact.

Kubica, who was then driving for BMW Sauber, mitt the infirmary the incoming period with a slight concussion and a sprained ankle.

Last week, he closed Formula One's prototypal effort conference of the flavour with the fastest time over threesome life in Valencia, Spain. The incoming effort conference is Feb. 10-13 in Jerez, Spain.

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AP Sports Writer Jerome Pugmire in Paris and Associated Press Writer Alessandra Rizzo in leaders contributed to this report.

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