We have immense respect for Maria De Villota, who lost her eye in a freak accident while testing an F1 car. She's back on her feet, smiling and (we say this because we love her) totally stylish.

This is an MRI image of Maria de Villota's skull after she crashed the Formula One car she was testing into the back of one of the team's trailers in early July. She lost her right eye, her senses of taste and smell, and may never race again, but she survived and is opening up about what happened.

F1 test driver Maria De Villota lost an eye when she crashed into parked truck early in July. She gave her first interview to Spain's ¡Hola! magazine and she's happy to be alive.

In a freak testing accident about two weeks ago, Marussia F1 test driver Maria De Villota collided with a truck in a Formula One car. She suffered head injuries and the loss of her right eye.

Spanish race car driver Maria De Villota, who was seriously injured in a test crash on Tuesday, has lost her right eye. She's in critical but stable condition.

Spanish race car driver Maria de Villota, whom many hoped would be the first woman driver in a modern F1 car, sustained "life threatening" injuries in her first test in the Marussia car earlier today in England.