Although I suppose it’s Not as Bad as Simon
Pagenaud’s lingering Concussion predicament…
Typically steer away from what I consider Puff
pieces, unless it regards one of the cadre of racing drivers I like.
Case in point was deciding to “read”, Err
listen to a Puff piece upon Racer.com Me Thinks? About how “Pumped” DannyRic’,
aka Daniel Ricciardo was about the upcoming second half of this year’s Formula
1 season. Noting how He’d spent the Summer Break training to get Himself Fit
for the forthcoming stretch ‘O races.
As Ricciardo had been Red Bull’s reserve driver
and getting His “Mojo” back by working on their simulator, along with being a
Red Bull Ambassador, before replacing the rudely discarded rookie Dutchman Nyck
de Vries at AlphaTauri, after the Dutchman had only been given a paltry ten
races to “impress” the likes of Der Helmut’, aka Dr. Helmut Marco.
As I, like Arse-sumedly many others have been
guessing that Ricciardo’s return to F1 at Scuderia AlphaTauri is simply a tune-up
for replacing Checo’, nee Sergio Perez at Red Bull next year, Righto?
Since Marco did little to quelch this
speculation by stating prior to the Dutch Grand Prix that Sergio wasn’t 100%
certain for next year…
Naturally I felt bad for Daniel after
ironically He broke His Hand whilst taking evasive action to not Slam into
Countryman Oscar Piastri at Zandvoort during Friday practice.
As the rookie Aussie’ who replaced DannyRic’ at
McLaren this season had spun on the blind, banked Turn-3 corner ahead of
Ricciardo. With Daniel reportedly not being able to remove His Hands from the
steering wheel quickly enough before impacting the wall!
I first learned about the incident when
perusing my NFB Newsline for The Blind’s Reuters Motorsports News feed Friday
morning. But what I found annoying was that Reuters, London Telegraph, etc. Noted
that Ricciardo had broken His wrist. And others like The Guardian and Racer
were saying He’d broken His Hand.
As I really get tired of this Shoddy, misleading
reporting. Like is it His Hand or wrist Dudes?
Thus after looking up what a Metacarpal is,
technically both descriptions are correct. Since apparently the Metacarpal are
the Bones between one’s fingers and wrist, connecting each other. But still, it
would be nice for everybody to say the same Gory words…
AnyHoo’ regardless, Ricciardo was not medically
cleared to compete and was summarily replaced by the team’s reserve driver Liam
Lawson. Although reportedly sacked Nyck de Vreis was still on AlphaTauri’s
Driver’s “rolls”, and would have been a popular choice at Zandvoort.
Yet Red Bull further stuck the knife into de
Vries when the team elected to give the 21yr old New Zealander His debut Grand
Prix start instead.
While Ricciardo flew to Barcelona to undergo
surgery to “Clean-up” His Metacarpal break in order to recover as quickly as
possible.
With rumours initially suggesting that
Ricciardo would be targeting a return to the cockpit at the Singapore Grand Prix,
despite it being a highly physical race.
Ricciardo’s Hand surgery was successful with a
plate and screws being inserted to aid recovery, with Red bull haveng
subsequently said that rookie Lawson will “Deputize” at this week’s Italian
Grand Prix, and until ricciardo’s ready to return to His AlphaTauri cockpit.
Thus I can only Hope DannyRic’ makes a speedy, but Full recovery before returning to action either at Suzuka or Austin later this season.
