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

F1 driver Ricciardo met his fr💧iend, Yamaha MotoGP rider Quartar💯aro, last September after undergoing surgery on a broken hand.

Quarta꧂raro’s reaction? To grab Ricciardo’s hand and twist it, to prove the injury was not insurmountable.

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

“I thinking ‘ma🦋ybe don💝’t move your hand, but at least move your arm!’

“I was telling him ‘move this hand so you can be ready to come back as soon as possible’ so I had to grab it and make him us🍎e it. He was laughing so bad!”

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

“I don’t think he knew fully how bad the break was, but hꦓe made me feel like 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.

“ꦯAfterwards he told me he’d once pulled a screw out of his skin from some operation he’d had, just ripped it out of the tip of his finger…

“Seriously, the bikes guys are just different. His mentꩲality, his battle scars… they’re a ﷽different breed to us.”

Quartararo said: “It’s true that with mot🔴orcycles, we are more used to breaking fingers or some other things.

“Bu🉐t for one monܫth he was such a baby, he was scared of using it.

“Not all Formula One drivers are 🥃soft, but I think he is!🔯”

Ricciardo and Quartararo🎀 str꧟uck up a friendship in 2019.

Quartararo, in his rookie year, became the youngest rider ever to earn pole position at Jerez. But his Yamah✅a broke down, ending his victory dream.

Ricciardo offered his sympathy.

“I remember Daniel messa꧋ging me saying ‘stay strong, you were so fast’”, Quartararo said.

“I was 𝐆‘whoa, this is a big moment of my career’.”

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