Mgr.Robert Pergl
Racing Driver
I had been using glasses since early childhood and I never got used to them. As I remember, I exchanged them for contact lenses in secondary school. But it was just a half-way solution, mainly during sport. Racing means quite a large acceleration load and sometimes a lens happened to move. There is a very fast and long curve in Istanbul, where it happened in almost every round. Anybody can imagine that at speeds over 200 km/h it's not ideal to have imperfect vision, moreover if you need five dioptre lenses. That’s why I had been thinking about laser eye surgery for quite a long time, but naturally, like anybody else I had worries. But the more information I got, the less I feared it. At the beginning of 2009, during the winter race break, I had surgery, which was fast and without complications. Now I can see much better than ever and who knows, it might have helped me when I was among the winners in this year’s first two Ferrari Challenge races.
