It was on this day in 2011 that Robert Kubica's world - and his career in F1 - ground to a sudden halt, the Polish driver suffering life-threatening injuries in a rally crash in Italy.

Just to keep his competitive juices flowing during the winter before the F1 season, Kubica entered the Rally Ronde di Andora with a Skoda Fabia in the Super2000 category.

His lost it however on a special stage and crashed into a guard-rail, an element of which went straight through the chassis and half severing his left arm.

Eight years on, after a long and winding path to recovery, Kubica has achieved the impossible: racing again in Formula 1!