Fernando Alonso looks back on his accident

Officially allowed to get back behind the wheel this weekend for the second round of the season in Malaysia, the Spaniard Fernando Alonso returned at a press conference to his accident which occurred in Barcelona in Catalonia on February 22, during winter testing.

“I think it's clear that there was a problem with the car, but it wasn't found with the data today. We met a steering problem in the middle of turn 3, which got stuck to the right. I got closer to the wall, braked until the last moment, downshifted from five to three, indicates the double world champion who insisted on brushing aside the theory of gusts of wind? yet advanced by McLaren in the first hours after the accident. I don't know if you've seen the video, but a hurricane wouldn't have moved the car at that speed. » specifies the former pilot Ferrari.

Alonso also wanted to clarify that he had not lost consciousness in the car during the accident. " I remember everything ? Hag was in front of me going into turn 3, but cut the chicane to let me pass. After hitting the wall, I cut off the radio first, then the battery system to cut off the ERS because I saw the marshals arriving. I was fully aware at that moment. I lost consciousness from sedation in the ambulance or at the clinic. » Alonso also wanted to deny certain rumors. “There is a period that I don't remember from two o'clock to six o'clock or something like that, but still it was normal with the medication. I didn't wake up in 1995, I didn't speak Italian. I remember the accident, I remember the next day. »

The Iberian driver will begin his season tomorrow during the first free practice session at Sepang in Malaysia.