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Alonso confirms his steering “locked” in crash

Fernando Alonso has explained more details about the mysterious testing crash in pre-season testing that hospitalized him for three days. Speaking in the pre-race press conference, Alonso was asked repeatedly about the circumstances of the accident and his subsequent concussion. “It was clear there was a problem in the car, but it was not found in the data,” he said. “There is not a clear answer. "Definitely we had a steering problem in Turn 3, and it locked to the right. “I braked hard and downshifted from fifth to third. Unfortunately, in the data we still miss some parts. The data is not there, not at the top. “After one month we found nothing in the data. Whatever part...
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