"lucky" is an extremely ambiguous word.

She was unlucky she hit the ramp, that's a no brainer.

But she was extremely lucky it was at the height it was, if you don't understand why I'm saying this then I'm not going to explain it to you in detail, use your imagination.

Never having the ramp down in the first place would have been better, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

She's conscious and talking, I think she'll survive.

It seems injuries are not life-threatening anymore, but let's hope whatever injuries she has do not impede her in her normal life afterwards.

Some people in Twitter have made comments about her status as an inexperienced woman driver... I think all that is bullshit. Her mistake or not, everyone makes mistakes and we never know because it happens on a racetrack with no lorries in sight...

Well, if it was down to Monaco officials Maldonado would've never driven again there... I'm not comparing de Villota to Pastor, just saying that mistakes made in the past aren't necessarily the cause of errors today.

But there's a difference between driving like an idiot and not having the ability to control a car. She was dangerously slow and reckless in Superleague Formula, and she wouldn't even be allowed near an F1 car if she didn't have money.

F1 needs to stop this trend of inexperienced and rich drivers buying reserve slots so they can run up and down runways. It doesn't help the sport, and it's just been proven that it's an added pointless danger.

I've always wondered how safe a place like Duxford is for F1 testing but why on earth was a truck located there like that?

I'm not seeing the problem with the truck. It's the same standard procedure at every straight line test. It isn't like it was parked on the runway where she was testing, it's off in what would be considered a pit lane. If the truck position is considered dangerous then look at your standard F1 pit lane then consider all the things there are to hit in that - medical car, safety car, other course vehicles, countless pit garages (with some rather dangerous things such as fuel rigs near the front), pit wall and pit boxes etc.

I don't buy the "If you have a mechanical failure" line either. If you applied that to everything they we should ban pit lanes entirely. Imagine if you get a stuck throttle, or locked axel in the pit lane - you'd create hell. Should we ban those too?