Patrick Tambay: “Wise decision to leave Alonso at home”

Fernando Alonso will miss the inaugural match of World F1 2015, scheduled at Melbourne in less than two weeks, after the doctors decided to keep him at rest following the accident during the tests Barcelona – where the Spaniard would have been hit by an electric discharge of 600 watts.

The pilot of the McLaren-Honda he accepted and understood the doctors' decision, who considered it too risky to subject him to a possible second trauma in such a short time.
“It will be tough not being in Australia, but I understand the recommendations,” he tweeted Alonso from his very popular profile on the social network.
“A second impact in less than 21 days 'NO',” agreed the 33-year-old from Oviedo.

Twenty-one is not a random figure: this is in fact the exact number of days that as of March 15th will have passed since the accident, but also the minimum rest period indicated in the sports protocol - as for rugby - before an athlete can return to play.

Romain Grosjean, to the microphones of RMC Sport, stated that although the accident of Alonso didn't seem particularly strong, the impacts totally lateral in F1 they are “extremely rare”.
“Almost always there's some sort of angle that results in damage to the car, but when you hit the wall completely parallel and the car doesn't break, like it did, suddenly all the energy that should have been absorbed by the carbon was completely absorbed by Fernando,” explained the driver Lotus.

Also the former pilot of F1 Patrick Tambay is of the same opinion, despite da McLaren-Honda they persist in declaring that Alonso He did not suffer any trauma.
Regarding the decision to keep the Spaniard "away" from Australia, Tambay he believes it is “a wise decision. Doctors also tend to protect themselves since, in the event of another accident Alonso, they could be responsible for the consequences.”

“At the same time, from a technical and sporting point of view from what we have seen so far, it is not a big loss for Fernando to be physically fit and return to the track in full shape after the first race,” he added Tambay.

Those who don't feel too sorry for the situation are instead Kevin Magnussen, third guide McLaren and now official replacement for Alonso on the starting grid of GP Australia. “It's a shame about the circumstances but I'm still excited to race Melbourne. I can't wait!”, tweeted the Danish driver.

“Good luck for the race my friend!”, was the response “twitter” from the convalescent Alonso.

Nina Stefanelli