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De Villota joins board of Spanish motorsports body

María de Villota is the newest member of the Supreme Council of the Royal Spanish Automobile Federation, duly attending the first board meeting of the year in Madrid this week.De Villota suffered serious injuries in a testing accident with the Marussia F1 team last year at Duxford Airfield, which resulted in the loss of her right eye as well as losing her sense of taste and smell.But de Villota appeared in good spirits at the start of the New Year, and joked that an optimistic outlook was very much "standard equipment" for anyone in a potentially dangerous profession or sport such as F1."I have always been cheerful, vital and optimistic and that does not change," she...
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