Alex Albon has given an update on his health after returning to the cockpit following on from his recovery from appendicitis at the Italian GP.
The Thai/British driver fell ill on Saturday morning in Monza and required surgery to remove his appendix, before he then had to be placed in intensive care and on a ventilator after suffering respiratory failure, following post-anaesthetic complications.
He did, however, make a swift recovery from that point and was back home in Monaco on the Tuesday after the race weekend, and would naturally have started thinking about getting back driving in Singapore.
Indeed, that is what he has managed to do with a mammoth effort to get back fit for one of the most gruelling races of the year and, after competing in both FP1 and FP2 and coming 16th in both sessions on Friday at the Marina Bay circuit, he gave an update on how he was feeling: “I’m feeling okay out there today despite everything that’s gone on and think I’m coping better than I expected. “We had a good amount of long runs but know it’s a quarter of what we’ll be doing come Sunday, so I’ll take advantage of the rest tomorrow.