Friday 11 October 2013

Racing driver Maria de Villota found dead in hotel room

Racing driver Maria de Villota found dead in hotel room

Former Formula 1kca/ak reserve driver Maria de Villota, 33, was found dead in a hotel room in Seville on Friday morning, the president of the Spanish Automobile Federation, Carlos Garcia, has confirmed.
'I have just found out. It is a very hard to take. There is no explanation for what has happened,' he told Spanish National Radio.
'She was a great person and an example for everyone.'
De Villota, daughter of former Formula 1 driver Emilio De Villota, lost her right eye in a crash while testing for the Marussia team at Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire in 2012.
'Maria has left us. She had to go to the sky like all the angels. I give thanks to God for the extra year and a half he left her with us.

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