Fernando Alonso Opens Up on Barcelona F1 Crash at Malaysian GP Presser

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Published: March 26, 2015

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Fernando Alonso’s second chance at McLaren has gotten off to a very rocky start. The Spaniard missed the 2015 Formula One curtain-raiser in Australia after being hospitalised following a crash in pre-season testing in Barcelona, but he has opened up about the accident in an FIA press conference ahead of his return to action in Malaysia.

The double world champion has revealed it was a steering issue that caused him to career into a wall at the Circuit de Catalunya back in February and, while McLaren has since made amendments to the car, at the time there was little he could do about it, per Chris Medland of F1i.com:



Naturally, rumours raged in the aftermath of the incident about Alonso’s condition and the circumstances surrounding the accident. According to El Pais (h/t Byron Young and Ed Malyon of the Mirror) the Spaniard “woke up in 1995” and could not remember making his Formula 1 debut.



But the former Ferrari star has dismissed those claims at the Sepang circuit ahead of his return, per the Formula 1 Twitter account:



Alonso also revealed he was fully aware of his actions in the immediate aftermath of the crash and even had the presence of mind to turn off his ERS system before losing consciousness in the ambulance following the smash, per ESPN:

After the hit I was kissing the wall for a while and then I switched off the radio first because it was on and then I switched off the master switch that we use for the batteries to switch off the ERS system so the marshals can touch the car. I was perfectly conscious at that time.

I lost consciousness in the ambulance or clinic at the circuit, but the doctors said this is normal because the medication that they put you under for the transportation and the checks that they do in the hospital and MRI and evaluation needs this protocol and medication.



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