Fernando Alonso remembers everything: “Steering stuck on the right”

Fernando Alonso will be on track in Sepang, was deemed fit by the doctors appointed by the Federation who gave him a final test to give him the green light to take to the asphalt for tomorrow's free practice 1. On the occasion of the FIA ​​press conference, the Iberian driver managed to give few new details on the accident in which he was the protagonist, reiterating how there was a mechanical failure to the steering.

“There was certainly a problem with the car but we were unable to find confirmation of it from the telemetry data – confided the McLaren driver – I remember everything. The steering stuck to the right and I hit and bounced several times against the wall, the wind has nothing to do with it, not even a hurricane could move a Formula 1 car."

Precisely to avoid another situation of this type, McLaren has taken particular precautions for the Sepang weekend: “The fact that there is no telemetry data perhaps shows that there are of shortcomings in the acquisition system – continued Alonso – The team carried out careful analyzes to try to understand what actually happened but nothing emerged. We will probably never know. For this race we took extraordinary measures by placing additional sensors on the car."

Eleonora Ottonello
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