Final Williams team mechanic returns home

Mark Gillan: One team member remains in hospital having suffered burns, but he is in a stable condition and in good spirits and has returned to England today for further medical care.
13.05.2012- A fire in the Williams pit garage after the celebrations is tended to by members of all
13.05.2012- A fire in the Williams pit garage after the celebrations is tended to by members…
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Williams F1 chief operations engineer Ma🍌rk Gillan has confirmed that the final team member injur🃏ed in the garage fire in Barcelona has now been flown back to the UK.

Despite suffering reported burns to 15 percent of his body, 50-year-old Martin Betts is said to be in a 'sta♕ble condition' and in 'good spirits'.

He will now continue to be treated in Britain having been discharged fr༺om the burns unit of Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital.

"I would like to reiterate our thanks to everyone in the paddock who helped the Williams team on Sunday to control the fire. There were a number of people who attended theꩵ circuit medical centre, mostly as the result of smoke inhalation. One team member remains in hospital having suffered burns, but he is in a stable condition and in good spirits and has returned to England today for further medical care," Gillan confirmed in the teams official post-race review.

Investigations into t🐷he cause of the fire, which halted the teams' celebrations after Pastor Maldonado'⛎s victory, meanwhile remain ongoing.

"The extent of the damage is still being accessed and will notꦚ become fully clear until both the cars and equipment have returned to the factory," Gillan added.

"What is clear is that our garage ꦜI🅰T equipment and infrastructure have been badly damaged."

Despite all that though, he added that the Grove-based outfit will still go to the Princi𒁃pality in two weeks time buoyed by their form on track a🦋t the Circuit de Catalunya.

"On the bac🃏k of the win in Spain we go to Monaco with high hopes but there is a prodigious amount of work to be done prior 🔯to the event to recover from the fire," he summed-up.

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