Bradley Scanes It is defined in your Instagram account as physio and coach of world champions athletes. His most important work, surely, had it next to Max Verstappen, whom he accompanied in his first three titles. But his name now reappeared because who he trains is the Argentine Franco frankntotothe 21 -year -old pilot who will return to the Formula 1 The weekend that comes in Isola to play with Alpine the Grand Prix of Emilia Romagna, seventh date of a World Cup that dominates Oscar Piastri with the McLaren.
The physiotherapist, who from 2020 and until the end of 2023 accompanied the Dutch in the F1 and formed a great friendship, joined the French team and was first seen this week, when the Buenos Aires performed a TPC test (tests in previous cars) with the A523 car in the Zandvoort autodrome, A few hours after being confirmed as Pierre Gasly’s new companion, replacing Jack Doohan. In the boxes, thanks to a video that went viral on Tik Tok, it was possible to identify Scanes, with an Alpine jacket, as one of the men who accompanied Colapint.
In October last year, when he was still Williams pilot, Franco went to an interview in El Hormiguero, a popular television program in Spain, where he agreed to measure his neck. “43, my number, boludo”It was surprised to see the size returned by the yellow centimeter.
There, he gave details of that important physical training for the pilots, even more when they reach F1, where they must handle Cars with 1000 horses of power, resist more than an hour and a half inside the car on Sundays and withstand the force G and the demand for the fastest curves.
-“It’s unpleasant, it’s the least sexy”he told about that neck training. “You have a thing here in the head that you seem to be doing you, I don’t know … Did you see the dogs when they put on the mouth? Of the ears, it is disgusting.commented laughing.
That is not the only exercise that Collapint now performs with Scanes, which created Elite Formula PT, through which he became a human performance consultant in Red Bull racing. There he also works with Matt Murray-Downing, physiotherapist and performance coach in Formula 2, and Grace Covington, physiotherapist of the Rugby Women’s team in England. According to its website, its integral approach “combines avant -garde physiotherapy techniques with advanced performance coaching to guarantee not only an effective recovery of injuries, but also an improvement in general physical abilities.”
With experience in F1 and the World Resistance Championship (WEC), in motor racing, the graduate of the University of Essex is still connected to Red Bull to provide them with accelerated rehabilitation solutions and performance consulting to world -class athletes sponsored by the energy drink in the United Kingdom. His work not only involves training plans, but also psychology and nutritionan aspect that usually costs Colapinto himself. “My diet has a lot of chicken and rice, They are very basic and boring things. The problem is that I do not follow it “he joked in an interview, but immediately acknowledged that “Nutrition is important”. “In Singapore I lowered three kilos and peak during the race, so you have to have well -controlled food and hydration”he was sincere.
Now, he will have one of the best by his side thanks to Flavio Briatore, the Italian tycoon who did not hesitate to put Williams 20 million dollars for a transfer of five years.
