Ex-F1 driver Reutemann moved to intensive care
Date published:
May 9 2021
Ex-Formula 1 driver Carlos Reutemann has been transferred to intensive care due to a worsening condition after being admitted to hospital in his native Argentina.
The 79-year-old, who raced for Brabham, Ferrari, Lotus and Williams, finishing World Championship runner-up with the latter in 1981, was sent to Sanatorio Santa Fe on Wednesday after suffering a digestive haemorrhage.
The hospital reported Reutemann was in a “stable condition” on Friday, but his condition has since worsened with internal bleeding, prompting doctors to send him to an intensive care unit in Rosario via helicopter.
A medical report read: “Given the evidence of a new episode of digestive bleeding and the consequent haemodynamic decompensation of Senator Carlos Reutemann, with a low blood pressure and worsening of biochemical parameters, it was decided to refer him to the Sanatorio Parque in the city of Rosario to continue wit