Interviewed Monday morning on Montreal radio station 98.5 FM, doctor Ronald Denis gave a few details regarding Robert Kubica's fearful crash on the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit.

Denis, associate head doctor of the Canadian Grand Prix, thought he had seen the Polish driver's final hour. "We thought he was dead. Poor him, it's over. (We thought) there would be no more brain left, that there would be nothing left," he said.

Despite the incredible violence of the accident, Kubica was able to describe the collision with Jarno Trulli's car, the impact against the wall and the rolls that ensued, but there exists a blank space between the end of his course and the moment where he opened his eyes to discover the presence of track personnel.

"We were impressed because he was talking to us," related doctor Denis, adding that Robert Kubica owes his life to the highly-developed technology of the safety cell which surrounds the cockpit.

"We see the results today. A few years ago, that driver would never have come out alive from an accident like that one," said Ronald Denis, underlining that quite to the contrary, his patient emerges with "no major wounds," except for a sprain and a light concussion.

The BMW-Sauber team will decide over the next few days if their driver will race in the United States Grand Prix this week, a wish Kubica has already expressed.