Stroll drives with broken wrist in Bahrain. He can’t get out of the Aston Martin-Corriere.it

In free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, Lance Stroll, recovering from a painful bicycle accident two weeks ago, obtained the sixth fastest time with his new Aston Martin AMR23 which he has never had the opportunity to test before. To do so, however, he must have suffered a lot: the right wrist was in fact operated on in microsurgery to reduce a fracture and the pilot wears plasters on the thumbs of both hands.

Meanwhile, the Canadian keeps his hands on the wheel in a strange position compared to his colleagues: the right hand was often detached from the steering wheel during practice, especially in turns one and two, where the stresses are greater. In other corners, it performed the opposite.

During one of the dialogues with the wall, his track engineer is heard asking him to compromise turn 1 to have a better line in turn two, and Stroll replies: I can’t by the hands. Not only that: the Aston Martin driver also noticeably limps on the right side, e he needed help from the whole team to get out of the cara problem it raises some doubts in case of an accident in the race.

In any case, he closed the day as we said with the sixth position at 0”543 from world champion Max Verstappen on Red Bull. It’s about the flying lap, but the problems seem to come on the long wheelbase.