As per F🥀1 tradi💃tion, teams and drivers have several weeks off in August as part of the summer shutdown.

While on ho🐭liday with girlfriend Carmen Montero Mundt, Russell uploaded images of h꧒imself in the sea.

One post showeꩲd him hydrofoil surfboardinꦺg and jet skiing.

Russell revealed on his Instagram acꦉcount that he sustained “a🔯 few bruises” as a result.

Speaking ahead of this weekend’s , Russell shed more light on his time awaꦕy from F1 and the injuries he susꦜtained.

“It was good to branch out an𒆙d do these things,” he said. “Historically I never wanted to do other sports, especially in-season, in case of i🍎njury. 

“Bu🥂t I felt like I wanted to try something new, and keep my sense alive. A few injuries along the way! But all recovered now. When you fall off aꦗ foil board…

“Th🍬ere are a lot of videos which I didn’t post, falling off big-time! I really enjoyed it. For a lot of us, when you’re so focused throughout the year, to have two♏ full weeks of doing nothing, you get a bit bored after a bit of time.

“To have an activity, it was fulfilling to make progress, and to not be falling ❀off by the first days.”

Russell al🐭so said he bumped into Daniel Ricciardo during his holiday, jokingly saying that the Australian was behaving himself.

“Daniel was very well-behaved, he’d done his partying in the six mꦚon𓃲ths before,” he added.