FIA analyses delay in medical attention for Kovalainen

The FIA is investigating why it took doctors several minutes to access the unconscious Heikki Kovalainen after his heavy crash at the Spanish Grand Prix. Kovalainen was trapped under the tyre barriers after a crash against 130km/h at Turn 9 of the Circuit de Catalunya.

A member of the FIA safety division, Dr Stephen Olvey, declared to 'Associated Press' that the delay in medical attention for Kovalainen could have been tragic. "If you are unconscious and perhaps not breathing you don't have more than two or three minutes before you get some kind of significant damage. So, that's going to have to be looked into," he said.

An FIA official confirmed that an analysis of the incident is taking place at the moment: "It's too early to comment on the incident other than to confirm that the FIA's safety experts have already begun a very detailed analysis of accident data."