Sainz Details How He Managed To Recover From Surgery For Appendicitis In Just 2 Weeks

"As soon as I got my appendix removed, I went on the internet and started talking with professionals and said: 'Okay, what helps to speed up recovery?'"

"From that point onwards, I started doing all the sort of things that you can do to speed up recovery, the wounds, the scar tissue, what you can help to be faster on that, talking to other athletes, talking to other doctors in Spain and internationally. Then, I put together a plan with my team. "

"The reason why athletes recover faster is because you can dedicate 24 hours per day for seven days to recovery, that's exactly what I did."

"I started going to hyperbaric chambers twice a day for one hour, taking an Indiba machine, which is an electromagnetic thing for wounds."

"I was programming my time in bed, my time to go for a walk, my time to eat, the kind of food that you have to recover, everything was centred around recovery to try to be ready for Australia.

"Don't worry, because in the second week [post surgery], every day is going to [be better than the last]' - even Alex Albon told me this. So I just followed more or less what everyone told me and put together a good plan."