Motor racing-Magnussen pulls out of Daytona 24 Hours after hand surgery

Daytona

19/01/2023 17:22

Jan 19 (Reuters) - Danish Formula One driver Kevin
Magnussen said on Thursday he had withdrawn from the 24 Hours of
Daytona sportscar race after undergoing surgery to remove a cyst
on his left hand.
    The decision came as no surprise, with Magnussen warning
last week that he was likely to miss the Jan. 28 race due to the
procedure.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N33Y3JY
    He had been due to race for the MDK Motorsport team in a
Porsche 911 GT3.
    "The hand surgery went fine, but I have been advised by the
doctors not to drive at Daytona," the Haas driver said on
Twitter.
    Formula One's pre-season testing is in Bahrain on Feb. 23-25
with the opening race at Sakhir on March 5. Haas expect
Magnussen, who will have a new team mate in Germany's Nico
Hulkenberg, to be fully fit by then. 
 (Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Christian
Radnedge)
 ((alan.baldwin@thomsonreuters.com; +442075427933;))