{"id":489935,"date":"2026-02-19T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:39:14","slug":"injured-bathurst-12-hour-driver-ralf-aron-discharged-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489935\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Bathurst 12 Hour driver Ralf Aron discharged from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IGTC126_021211571502527SVS_SVS.jpg\" alt=\"Injured Bathurst 12 Hour driver discharged from hospital\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRalf Aron (left) with Craft-Bamboo Racing teammates Maximillian Gotz and Lucas Auer. Image: Gruppe C Photography<\/p>\n<p>Aron suffered a broken back when his Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-AMG hit the stationary Tsunami RT Porsche 911 of Johannes Zelger.<\/p>\n<p>Aron was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with two vertebral fractures.<\/p>\n<p>In an update on social media, the Estonian confirmed his parents had arrived and that he had left Orange Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Aron posted an image of himself wearing a back brace while sat in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am able to stand up and walk a little,\u201d Aron wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTook my first shower yesterday \u2013 amazing experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn my way to Sydney and at some point eventually travel home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aron said he would be seen by doctors in Sydney to start his recovery. A date on his return to Europe has not been set.<\/p>\n<p>Aron\u2019s racing program was to include seasons in GT World Challenge Asia and International GT Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285241\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/285241.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ralf Aron (left) with Craft-Bamboo Racing teammates Maximillian Gotz and Lucas Auer. Image: Gruppe C Photography Aron suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,190013,806,805,803,804,7499,85],"class_list":["post-489935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bathurst-12-hour","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot4","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}