He was champion three times with Max Verstappen and will now work to help Franco Colapinto in Alpine :: Olé

Franco Colapinto and the Argentines have the days for their return to the tracks in Formula 1, which will be with Alpine at the Emilia-Romaña Grand Prix, from Friday 16 to Sunday 18. And it transpired that the French team added a high level reinforcement to help the pillare: A man who worked with Max Verstappen and collaborated to win three of his four world championships.

Who is it? This is the Englishman Bradley Scanes, Physiotherapist Top who worked with Mad Max in Red Bull from 2020 to 2023, helping him in training, in the prevention of injury, in recovery and even in nutrition to the Dutch in his first three consecrations (2021, 2022 and 2023).

Scanes was seen with an Alpine jacket next to Franco, the same day that his assumption was announced in Alpine, While he signed autographs to fans who had approached to see him practice in the Zandvoort circuit, located in the Netherlands. The image went viral following the video that a user shared (@peacelovef1) on Tiktok.

In his Instagram account, Scanos is described as a “Physiotherapist and coach for world champions athletes”, and includes emojis of a pilot, a swimmer and a cyclist, among others. In his feed, in fact, he has set two photos with Verstappen, the last one of the day that they said goodbye, in November 2023. “4 years. 368 flights. 3 world championships. A great friend. I’m going to miss you,” He wrote at that time.

With a long curriculum, Scanes also had experience in the World Resistance Championship (FIA WEC), worked with Olympic athletes and in multiple institutions such as the British Association of Amateur Gymnastics or the British Basketball Federation.

Now, Scanes already works to maximize the physicist of Colapinto, who will replace Jack Doohan and try to give points to an alpíne (penultimate in the Constructors Championship) who, this season, only saw them with Pierre Gasly (he achieved seven after adding six in Bahrein and one in Miami).

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