McLaren Honda have confirmed in a statement today that their driver Fernando Alonso has left the hospital but will not be driving at the final pre-season test at Barcelona, set to start tomorrow.
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14:06 McLaren has issued this statement regarding Alonso's accident and treatment:
"Today at 12:35 CET, while testing at the Circuit de Catalunya (Barcelona), during the fourth and final day of the current test, Fernando Alonso's McLaren-Honda car left the track at Turn Three, causing the right-hand side of his car to strike the wall.
"Fernando was driven to the circuit's medical centre where the circuit's doctors gave him first aid.
"He was conscious and spoke with the doctors.
"However, as per usual procedure in such circumstances, he was then airlifted to hospital where he is undergoing precautionary checks.
jaba.hut wrote:From skysports live feed:
15:02 Antonio Boselli of Sky Italia - who you might have seen joining our very own Ted Kravitz for the Day Two edition of Ted's Notebook - has tweeted 'Alonso went out at turn 4 very slowly, apparently he fainted in the car'.
We should stress, however, that this is just speculation at the moment and there's been no word from the team as to the cause of Fernando's crash.
14:06 McLaren has issued this statement regarding Alonso's accident and treatment:
"Today at 12:35 CET, while testing at the Circuit de Catalunya (Barcelona), during the fourth and final day of the current test, Fernando Alonso's McLaren-Honda car left the track at Turn Three, causing the right-hand side of his car to strike the wall.
"Fernando was driven to the circuit's medical centre where the circuit's doctors gave him first aid.
"He was conscious and spoke with the doctors.
"However, as per usual procedure in such circumstances, he was then airlifted to hospital where he is undergoing precautionary checks.
"We will issue a further update in due course."
I have never seen a F1 driver being airlifted to hospital in a single sided crash with a wall at 150km/h. Also he didn't hit the wall head on.
as per usual procedure in such circumstances
that line is not consistent with this situation.
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Dixo wrote:I really don't understand why the professional sportsman, especially F1 driver driving the car when he doesn't feel well. That is so dangerous for him as well for others.
Any info about the McL damages? Will they manage to get back on the track?
they say the damage wasn't too big, so jb might get a few laps in before the chequered flag.
“Let’s look at the possibilities,” says Ted. “Either something failed in the car – a component failure or, as has been wildly suggested online, there was an energy recovery failure which might have given Fernando an electrical shock. We can discount that; I’ve just spoken to Renault who say because that because the car was grounded it shouldn’t be possible for a driver to receive an electrical shock.
"McLaren are also planning to repair the car and send back out – and if it was, essentially, the car’s fault, then they wouldn’t be sending Jenson out.
"So if it’s not the car’s fault, did something happen to Fernando to make him lose consciousness? We just don’t know. But that is a line of suggestion coming from some quarters. But we must stress, we don’t know that and it’s just a speculative theory at this stage.”
McLaren say Alonso only went for precautionary checks, the car was only lightly damaged, yet over 2.5 hrs have passed without the Button being sent back out in it, which clearly raises questions.
That depends what damage there was, just because the car looks relatively intact doesn't mean the car is lightly damaged, shoving the driveshaft into the gearbox can cause enormous damage that isn't readily apparent until opened up. Given that there's been a few bugs/illnesses traveling around the paddock it could just be that he was unwell and the exertion of driving brought it on a lot worse.
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F1Writers™ @f1writers 2m2 minutes ago
J.Vidal(photo freelance) in @copegp "Alonso was slower than usual.He was touching the wall.He had no reaction" #AlonsoIncident #F1
