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

F1 driver Ricc🀅iardo met his friend, Yamaha Mot🥀oGP rider Quartararo, last September after undergoing surgery on a broken hand.

Quartararo’s reaction? To grab Ricciardo’s hand and twist it, to prov🌸e the injury was not insurmountable.

Quartararo told :&nbs💮p;“He had the surgery anꦅd 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 ‘maybe ♛don’t move your hand, but at least move your arm!’

“I wꦜas 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 use it. He w♎as laughing so bad!”

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

“I don’t thi꧑nk he knew fully how bad the break was, but he made me feel l𓂃ike 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.

“Afterwards 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 mentality, his battle scars… the💞y’re a different breed to us.”

Quartararo s✃aid: “🌜It’s true that with motorcycles, we are more used to breaking fingers or some other things.

“But for🐠 one month he ꦚwas such a baby, he was scared of using it.

“Not alﷺl Formula One drivers are soft, but I think he is!”

Ricciardo and Quartararo ﷽struck up a 🧸friendship in 2019.

Quartararo, in hi🌼s rookie year, became the youngest rider ever to earn pole position at Jerez. But his Yamaha broke down, ending his victory dream.

Ricciardo offered his sympathy.

“I remember Daniel messaging me saying ‘stay st🎐rong, you were so fast’”, Quartararo said.

“I was ‘whoa, thi♓s is a big moment of my career’.”

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