As pe🎀r F1 tradition, teams and drivers have several weeks off in August as part of the summer shutdown.

While on holiday with girlfriend Carmen Montero Mundt, Russell uploaded 📖images of himself in the sea.

One post showed him hydrofoil surf🤪boarding and jet skiing.

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

Speaking ahead of this weekend’s , Russell shed more light on ൩his time away from F1 and the injuries he sustained.

“It was goo🦂d to branch out and do these things,” he said. “Historically I never wanted to do o♏ther sports, especially in-season, in case of injury. 

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

“There are a lot of videos which I didn’t postꦕ, 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 also said he bumpe🐷d into Daniel Ricciardo during his holiday, jokingly saying that the Australian was behaving himself.

“Daniel was ve🏅ry well-behaved, he’🐬d done his partying in the six months before,” he added.