Daniel Ricciardo insists MotoGP riders are “a different breed” after heari🍬ng how Fabio Quartararo overcame injury.

F1 driver Ricciardo met his friend,🌳 Yamaha MotoGP rider Quartararo, last September after undergoing surgery on a broken hand.

Quartararo’s reaction? To grab Ricciardo’s hand and twist it, to prove the injury was not insurm🐓ountable.

Quartararo told : “He had the surgery and broke only the metacarpal, but he was acting likꦛe he was totally blocked from the shoulder and ♛I asked him ‘how much have you broken?’

“I thinking ‘maybe don’t move your hand, but at least 𒊎move your arm!’

“I was telling him ‘move this h▨and so you can be ready to come✅ back as soon as possible’ so I had to grab it and make him use it. He was laughing so bad!”

Ricciardo said: “He gave me so much s**t that night about not being able to move my hand at dinner, he was s🧸aying I should be able to race the next weekend.

“I don’t think he knew fully how bad the break was, but he made me feel lꦗike I was so pathetic…

“He reckons the way I was holding my🍎 hand like my entire arm was broken… he was definitely taking the p*** out of me.

“Afterwards he told 𓄧me he’d once pulled a screw out of his skin from some operation he’d had, ju🔯st ripped it out of the tip of his finger…

“Seriously, the bi🐲kes guys are just differen🦩t. His mentality, his battle scars… they’re a different breed to us.”

Quartararo sai🍬d: “It’s tr💯ue that with motorcycles, we are more used to breaking fingers or some other things.

“But for one month he was such a baby, ♓he was scared of using it.

“Not all Formula One drivers are soft, but I think ಞhe is!”

Riccia🎶rdo and Quartararo s🔴truck up a friendship in 2019.

Quarta꧙raro, in his rookie year, became the youngest rider ever to earn pole position at Jerez. But his Yamaha broke down, ending his victory dream.

Ricciardo offered his sympathy.

“I remember D✤aniel messaging me saying ‘stay strong, you were so fast’”, Quartararo said.

“I was ‘whoa, this is a big moment of my ca🧔reer’.”

The next week for the F1 Spanish Grand Prix, Quartararo visited hisไ new pal and they have stayed in touch ever since.