For a few days after the crash, the situation was critical for the Swedish speedway driver Linus Sundström. But on Thursday, Sundström's father Kenneth Sundström announced that his son was awake and talkable.

- It has been life threatening, disaster. I'm all over. He is intensive but he is starting to come back, Kenneth Sundström told SVT Sport on Thursday.

Have left intensive

On Friday, positive news comes from Poland.

- He has left intensive now. He has talked to his son who is at home in Sweden. It goes unbelievably fast, it's so damn nice, ”Kenneth Sundström told SVT Sport.

- The plan now is for him to be operated on Tuesday, for the fractures in the femur and upper arm.

Must be operated for half a day

The information Kenneth Sundström received from the medical team is that the operation will take time.

- It will take twelve hours. I don't know exactly what to do. But doctors say the rehabilitation will take much less time. Kenneth Sundström tells us that his son is becoming more and more attractive.

- Now he is with, but he is subdued and tired.

Linus Sundström himself does not remember anything about the accident, but Kenneth Sundström has seen it afterwards.

- It was brutal.