{"id":428235,"date":"2023-03-03T04:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428235"},"modified":"2023-03-03T04:10:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:10:42","slug":"canadas-stroll-ready-for-bahrain-gp-after-recovering-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canadas-stroll-ready-for-bahrain-gp-after-recovering-from-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Stroll ready for Bahrain GP after recovering from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll confirmed his readiness to go for the Formula 1&#8242; season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix after overcoming a cycling crash which injured his wrists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Lance Stroll to race in Bahrain! <\/p>\n<p>Nice to have you back, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lance_stroll?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lance_stroll<\/a> \ud83d\udc9a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstonMartinF1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AstonMartinF1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ITKq7TpEj6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ITKq7TpEj6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1631221229330857985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Stroll was declared unfit after his accident, with the team\u2019s reserve driver Felipe Drugovich filling in for him as he recovered before pre-season testing in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Drugovich\u00a0was on standby in case\u00a0Stroll\u00a0wasn\u2019t past fit by FIA doctors, but on the eve of the first practice session,\u00a0Aston Martin\u00a0confirmed he would drive after passing fitness checks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018Yeah, [the wrists are] feeling good,\u2019\u2019 said\u00a0Stroll.\u00a0\u2018\u2018A big push in the last 12 days to get me here, and they\u2019re feeling good. I was in the sim yesterday and the day before.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018It was a day-by-day thing. The first few two days were rough. But then the last four or five days they were improving, I got the all clear by the doctors, and they\u2019re confident [I can go] racing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There were also questions surrounding the lack of comment from\u00a0Stroll\u00a0or the team on whether he had been back in the simulator before his potential comeback.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018I fell off my bike, [and] broke my wrists,\u2019\u2019 said Stroll. \u2018\u2018I had surgery on my right wrist. It\u2019s just a small procedure, and it was just physiotherapy and rehab to get me here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re feeling good this Friday\u2026 and you know why! It\u2019s the start of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> season.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alo_oficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alo_oficial<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lance_stroll?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lance_stroll<\/a> and all our friends in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstonMartinF1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AstonMartinF1<\/a> team ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AstonMartin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AstonMartin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BahrainGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BahrainGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JpmQrhuTGu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JpmQrhuTGu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aston Martin Racing (@AMR_Official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMR_Official\/status\/1631565131111972866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018It was a private matter. I was dealing with a lot. I was going into surgery and dealing with rehab I didn\u2019t have a clear answer of how long it was going to take to recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018I was completely focused and motivated to make it to Bahrain. I did the sim, we turned up the steering strength, and I felt good winding on the lock, going over bumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll confirmed his readiness to go for the Formula 1&#8242; season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix after overcoming a cycling crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428236,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17470,17745,17469],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Felipe Drugovich\u00a0was on standby in case\u00a0Stroll\u00a0wasn\u2019t past fit by FIA doctors","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428235"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428235"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}