František Brutovský‘s effort to get well from the fractured vertebra he sustained on the Hungarian Baja has taken a step in the appropriate route. On Thursday, he confirmed he has been discharged after a profitable surgical procedure, and can spend roughly six weeks getting again in form.
“The surgical procedure went nicely with none main issues,” he wrote. “Now, I’ve obtained a little bit of a ‘screwed-together’ backbone, and I’m going through 6 weeks of relaxation—simply mendacity down and taking quick walks at most. It’s going to be a protracted highway to get again behind the wheel.”
The harm occurred when his Ford F-150 EVO rolled through the third Selective Part of the Hungarian Baja. He had completed twentieth total (ninth in Final) within the first SS earlier than enhancing to eleventh total and fifth at school the following leg. Brutovský was not the one harm within the race as Fidel Castillo Ruiz broke his collarbone when he rolled that very same stage, one among a sequence of security considerations that prompted fellow Czech Martin Koloc to withdraw.
The crash resulted in a fractured vertebra that preliminary prognosis acknowledged didn’t require surgical procedure. As soon as he was transferred to Prague’s Motol Hospital, docs concluded he ought to bear it anyway attributable to a “threat of poor vertebral therapeutic and subsequent motion restriction.”
Whereas he’s anticipated to be out for any occasions in September, the timetable ought to get him again within the driver’s seat for MING Racing Sports activities‘ subsequent scheduled dates on the Dubai Worldwide Baja and Qatar Worldwide Baja in November. Each races are supposed to assist develop the Ford F-150 EVO T1+ for a run on the 2025 Dakar Rally.
