Toto Wolff was not the only senior member of Mercedes’ management team hurt in a cycling pileup this week.<\/p>\n
In a team-building exercise along the Danube river on Tuesday, the 42-year-old Austrian crashed, badly breaking his arm in four places.<\/p>\n
Bild newspaper reveals that, as well as suffering concussion, he had titanium screws inserted to repair his wrist, and was set to travel to Hungary direct from Vienna’s Lorenz-Bohler hospital.<\/p>\n
“I landed on my head in a massive crash, and the helmet was split at the front,” said Wolff.\u00a0 “I was very lucky.”<\/p>\n
Even luckier, however, was Mercedes team boss Paddy Lowe, who emerged unscathed except for cuts and bruises.<\/p>\n
“Paddy Lowe crashed with another guy and I would say we hit them at about 40kph,” said Wolff.<\/p>\n
Jock Clear, a well-known engineer on Lewis Hamilton’s side of the garage, has reportedly broken three ribs.<\/p>\n
The cycling tour was organised as a ‘team building’ exercise.<\/p>\n
“Next year we will do a backgammon tournament instead,” Wolff laughed.<\/p>\n
Luckily, drivers Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were not in the doomed peloton.\u00a0 Bild said Hamilton is still resting a sore neck after his Hockenheim qualifying crash, while Rosberg did not want to risk injury.<\/p>\n
Instead, also in the spirit of team building, they went out to dinner in Vienna with team chairman Niki Lauda.<\/p>\n
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