Robert Kubica will need up to a year to regain full use of his right hand, according to the surgeon who operated on the Formula One driver after his rally car accident on Sunday. The 26-year-old Kubica spent seven hours in surgery after suffering serious injuries in a high-speed crash on Sunday morning while competing in the Ronde di Andora Rally. Lead surgeon Igor Rossello, a hand specialist, said that it would take "about a year" for Kubica to recover the functionality in his badly damaged right hand. The doctor said there had been a "sub-total amputation of the right arm" which required reconstruction of the bone with four plates and screws and reconstruction of tendons, vessels and nerves.