Such was the extent of Pascal Wehrlein’s back injury that the Sauber driver has revealed that his team did not expect him to be back in the car before the Spanish GP.

The German came in for some stick in the early season when he sat out the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix.

Only after his comeback at the Bahrain GP did he reveal the full extent of his injuries, tweeting photos of his recovery.

In fact such was the severity, that Sauber didn’t think he would be back before Sapin.

“The team thought that my first race would be Barcelona,” Wehrlein told Motorsport.com.

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