Racing community rallies around injured Monger

A JustGiving.com page to help raise money to cover Monger's treatment and rehabilitation hit its £260,000 ($333,000) target within hours and had reached more than 226 percent of its goal within a day, helped by social media postings and donations from leading figures in Formula 1, IndyCar and other categories. At time of writing, nearly 14,000 people had contributed to the cause, including Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Chip Ganassi and Ryan Hunter-Reay. F1's Jenson Button and Max Verstappen gave £15,000 each.

Hey guys this fellow racer Billy Monger had a big shunt this past weekend at Donnington and sadly Billy has had amputations to both legs. This guy needs our help so if you can please donate, I will be doing as much as I can to help this dude out. The donations will be used to fund the care, treatments and therapies required by Billy in the immediate future and going forward, helping him to return to a full and active life. Info is on my bio.A post shared by Jenson Button (@jensonbutton_22) on Apr 19, 2017 at 1:39pm PDT

Monger was injured when he ran into the rear of the unsighted stationary car of Patrik Pasma. It took nearly two hours to extricate him from the wreckage, although he was reportedly conscious and communicating with the medical team. Pasma was also taken to hospital, but was released the next morning.

Monger's JHR Developments team boss Steven Hunter, who set up the fundraising page with the support of the Monger family, expressed gratitude.