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BMW-Sauber driver Robert Kubica has a broken leg after the huge accident from today’s Canadian Grand Prix race. The manager Daniele Morelli said Kubica was conscious and in good spirits.

"I talked to him…my impression is that he’s fine. He was giving indications to the doctors about his general state," he told Britain’s ITV television. "I saw him well. He talked to me almost normally, so that’s a good sign."

Kubica, 22, made contact with a Toyota on the approach to the hairpin on lap 27 and his car took off, flying through the air and slamming into a concrete wall at high speed before barrel-rolling across the track.

At the end of the race, Rookie Lewis Hamilton captured his first Formula One victory.  The win for the 22-year-old Englishman, the first black driver in Formula One, came in his sixth F1 start and gave him six consecutive podium finishes.

The only driver able to give the precocious Mercedes McLaren driver any competition in the 70-lap race on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve’s 2.71-mile (4.61-kilometer) road course was BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld, who chased Hamilton all day without catching him.

Hamilton beat Heidfeld to the finish by 4.3 seconds.

The race results at the Official Formula 1 Website

Update: Robert Kubica was released from the hospital Monday, one day after a frightening crash at the Canadian Grand Prix left him with a slight concussion and sprained ankle. "I feel very good," the 22-year-old said as he walked out of Sacre-Coeur Hospital. "I was very lucky."