Wolff was pictured with his arm in a cast on a family holiday, with his wife, Susie, revealing he had picked up an injury during an accide♔nt while downhill mountain biking. 

It wasn’t Wolff’s first in💝jury caused by a cycling accident. 

He suf🅠fered a fractured sho🅘ulder, collar bone, elbow and wrist after a pile-up involving members of the Mercedes team while cycling along the River Danube in Budapest ahead of the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix. 

There have been plenty of previous examples of things ending badly when F1 stars have switched from their natural h🅰abitat of four wheels to two. ☂;

Michael Schumacher 

In February 2009,168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Michael Schumacher suffered a 135mph crash while testing ౠa Superbike in Spain. 

The seven-time world champion had been lined up for a sensational F1 comeback with Ferrari as a reꦅplacement for the injured 🐭Felipe Massa, but was forced to shelve his plans. 

Schumacher drove Kimi Raikkonen’s 2007 w🍒orld championship-winning Ferrari at Mugello and reportedly set some strong lap times, but he was ultimately unable to get a grip on neck pain throughout the test. 

A💮fter concluding that his injuries from the bike accident were still “too severe” to cope with the rigours of F1 machinery at the time, Schumacher called off his comeback. But he would make a full-time return the following year after joining Mercedes. 

Luca Badoer instead stepped in for Massa at the European Grand Prix. However, after a couple of dreadful disp🐼lays, he was replaced by fellow Italian Giancarlo Fisichella. 

Mark Webber 

During the F1 off-season🌊 in November 2008, Ma💮rk Webber was hit by a car head-on while riding a bicycle at his own charity event in Tasmania. 

Webber suffered a broken right leg as well a💎s a broken shoulder in the accident but recovered in ti🉐me to take part in the 2009 F1 season. 

The Red Bull driver claimed a stunning breakthrough F1 victory at the German Grand Prix before undergoing further surgery to have screws removed from his leg. Following the season’s conclusion, Webber had another operation to remove a titanium rod from his⭕ leg. 

Less than two years late💜r, Webber was again injured while training on a mountain bike. He drove🔜 the final four races of the 2010 F1 season with a broken shoulder but kept the injury a secret from Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. 

Alex Albon

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon’s career was nearly derailed after a cycling trip with close friend and fellow F1 driver 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell ahead of the 2017 Formula 2 season. 

Albon broke his collarbone in a crash🎀, causing him to miss two F2 races. He recalled how he went on to have a “terrible season” following the cycling accident. 

“I think I was third in the championship before the incident to finishing absolutely♒ nowhere - for me, which in a top team was devastating. And at the same time, you know, it wasn’t good enough,” he told Motorsport Magazine.

“And that, at that point, you𝓡 know, I didn’t have the funding to go again. And I was back to square one. I was back to this feeling like🍬 I wasn’t going to be able to race.”

Thankfully, the Briti🦂sh-born Thai’s career was saved by a switch to DAMS in 2018. Albon finished ✅third in the championship and would go on to get his F1 break with Toro Rosso the following year. 

Fernando Alonso 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso’s prep♏arations for his return to F1 following a two-year hiatus were nearly scuppered by a cycling accident in which he sustained a fracture of his upper jaw. 

The two-time world champion was struck by a car while cycling in Switzerland. Alonso underwent a “successful corrective operation” before being discharged from hospitaღl less than a month before the opening pre-season test in Bahrain. 

The Spaniard fully recovered in time for the start of the 2021 campaign and raced with titanium plates in hi🐓s jaw, which he later had removed during the next off-season.&nꦆbsp;

Despite the injury, Alonso recorded his first F1 podium for more than seven years at the Qatar Grand Prix, while he also played a key role in helping then-Alpine teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon to secure a shock maiden win in Hungary. 

Lance Stroll 

Aston Martin driver168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lance Stroll faℱced a battle to be fit for the start of the 2023 F1 season after falling from his bike while training in Spain for the n😼ew campaign. 

Stroll suffered a broken wrist and a broken ri🍸ght big toe in the accident and was initially told by doctors that he would miss the opening ra꧅ces of the season. But the Canadian pulled off a remarkable recovery to return in time for the season opener in Bahrain, though he did have to sit out testing. 

Just 12 days after having surgery on his right wrist, Stroll tu🍨rned in a heroic performance as he qualified sixth, before driving through the pain to finish 💧sixth in the first race.