Wolff was pict🌸ured wit💛h his arm in a cast on a family holiday, with his wife, Susie, revealing he had picked up an injury during an accident while downhill mountain biking. 

It🐲 wasn’t Wolff’s fir𓄧st injury caused by a cycling accident. 

He suffered a fractured shoulder, collar bone, elbow and wrist after a pile-up invol🌠ving 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 badly꧒ when F💫1 stars have switched from their natural habitat of four wheels to two. 

Michael Schumacher 

In February 2009,168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Michael Schumacher suffered a 135mph crash while testing𒈔 a Superbike in Spai💛n. 

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

Schumacher drove Kimi Raikkonen’s 2007 world championship-win🎐ning Ferrari at Mugello and reportedly set some strong lap times, but he was ultimately unable𝔍 to get a grip on neck pain throughout the test. 

After conc🐽luding that his injuries from the bike accident were still “too severe” to cope with the rigours of F1 machinery at ﷺthe 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. Howᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤🉐ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚever, after a couple of dreadful displays, he was replaced by fellow Italian Giancarlo Fisichella. 

Mark Webber 

During the F1 off-season in November 2008, Mark 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 as a broken shoulderꦜ in the accident but recovered in time to take part in the 2009 F1 season. 

The Red Bull driver claimed a stunning breakthrough F1 victory at the German Grand𝓡 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 later, Webber was again injured while training on a mountain bike. He drove the final four races of the ൩2010 F1 season with a broken shoulder but kept the injury a secret from Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. 

Alex Albon

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

Albon broke 🧜his collarbo🥀ne 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, you know, I didn’t have the funding to go again. And I was back t🅺o square one. I was back to this feeling like I wasn’t going to be able to race.”

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

Fernando Alonso 

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso’s preparations for his return to F1 following a two-year hiatus were nearly scuppಌered 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 hospital les🌊s than a month before the openinꦡg pre-season test in Bahrain. 

The Spaniard fully recovered in time for the start of the 2021 campaign and raced with titanium ꦛplates in his jaw, which he later had remo💎ved during the next off-season. 

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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon to secure a shock maiden win in Hungary. 

Lance Stroll 

Aston Martin driver168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lance Stroll faced a batt𝓡le to be fit for the start of the 2023ඣ F1 season after falling from his bike while training in Spain for the new campaign. 

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

Just 12 days after having surgery on his right wrist, Stroll turned in a heroic performance as he qualifie💮d sixth, befꦚore driving through the pain to finish sixth in the first race.