Alex Albon details training regime to prepare for return from appendicitis

Alex Albon has given an outline of the work he has done leading up to the Singapore Grand Prix weekend after recovering from appendicitis.

The Williams driver required surgery on his appendix over the weekend of the Italian Grand Prix, after falling ill on Saturday morning.

Indeed, the surgery was a success but he suffered some post-anaesthetic complications, with him needing to be placed on a ventilator after respiratory failure.

By the start of the new week following the Italian Grand Prix, though, Albon had made a swift improvement and was able to get back home to Monaco to finish his rehab, before then turning his attention to getting back fit and seeing if he’d be ready for the race in Singapore.

Indeed, speaking to the press on Thursday ahead of the event, he revealed the process he went through in getting to Singapore, and feeling ready enough to compete this weekend.

“I feel ready. I feel as fit as I can be – no pain,” said Albon.

“We had a good week of training or two weeks almost to get back to where we are today. We’re realistic and we know that we’re coming to the most difficult race of the year. We do have to be mindful of that. But I feel good. I’ve been karting and it’s felt OK.”

Expanding more on his recovery spell, Albon said:

“We treated it like a nine to five job, training and recovery basically throwing everything [at it] and day by day was getting better and better.

“Then obviously, we got to a point where the recovery was going really well. We sat long and hard to think about it. Shall we do it or not? I feel like I am ready.”

Albon has already been out on circuit this weekend with FP1 underway in Singapore, and he’ll already have a better idea of how he is feeling in the car.

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