As per F1 tradition, teams and drivers have several weeks off in August asཧ part of the summer shutꦫdown.

While on holi🗹day 💫with girlfriend Carmen Montero Mundt, Russell uploaded images of himself in the sea.

One post show🃏ed him hydrofoil surfboarding and jet skiing.

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

Speaking ahead of this weekend’s , Russe🔯ll shed more light on his time away from F1🍷 and the injuries he sustained.

“It was good to branch out and do these things,” he said. “Historically I never wanted to do other sports, especial▨ly in-season, in case of injury. 

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

“There are a lot of videos which I didn’t post, falling off big-time! I really enjoyed it. For a lot of us, when you’re so focu🍌sed throughout the year, to have two full weeks of doing not𝔍hing, 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 bumped into Da🎐niel Ricciardo during his holiday, jokingly saying that the Au𒆙stralian was behaving himself.

“Daniel ෴was very well-behaved, he’d done his partying in the six months before,” he adde🎉d.