Marussia Find Technical Fault Not Cause of De Villota Crash

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has completed a detailed technical investigation of the crash that seriously injured test driver Maria de Villota. It looked into the accident itself and hired an outside firm to independently and autonomously investigate the crash. Both organizations found that that there was no technical fault with the car that caused the accident. 

Maria de Villota had never driven the Marussia MR01MaRussia MR01Russian Federation, 2012 > 20121 photo
before, and it was her fourth time driving a Formula 1 car. She did have open wheel experience though. She raced in two races in the Euroseries 3000 series in 2008, six races in the Superleague Formula in 2009, almost the entire Superleague Formula season in 2010 and one race in the Superleague Formula in 2011. She had also done some touring car racing. 

“We are satisfied that the findings of our internal investigation exclude the car as a factor in the accident. We have shared and discussed our findings with the HSE for their consideration as part of their ongoing investigation. This has been a necessarily thorough process in order to understand the cause of the accident. We have now concluded our investigatory work and can again focus on the priority, which continues to be Maria’s wellbeing. In that regard, we continue to support Maria and the De Villota family in any way we can," said Marussia Team Principal John Booth.