The Whisperer

Toyota driver Anthony Davidson has revealed he broke his toe during Sunday’s FIA World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain with a Twitter message.

Along with teammates in the #8 car Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, Davidson ended the season with a third consecutive race win and a fifth of the year.

The trio was the only one of the four LMP1 crews to get through the race incident-free, as the sister #7 Toyota and the #1 Porsche were both ruled out by collisions with GTE cars.

However, the race didn’t go entirely smoothly for Davidson, who managed to break one of his toes on his left foot against the door of the team building when he ran to the car ready to take over during a Full Course Yellow period.

“Great fun being behind the wheel fighting the Porsche team but I managed to break my toe on the way to the car when I accidentally kicked the door. Quite painful every braking zone!” he tweeted alongside a tearful Emoji.

Davidson later told a friend of the Whisperer that he damaged his tootsie ‘running to the car a bit too hastily’.  “It often happens when you have to spring into action and leg it to the car,” he explained. “That’s what I did, but unfortunately stubbed my toe on the door. I thought: ‘ooh, that hurt’ and it carried on getting worse and worse through the stint.

“If I could take a fifth race victory of the season and a broken toe at the same time, or no victory and no broken toe, I know what I would go for.”