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Officials defend Alonso amid latest rumours

Two leading figures in Spanish motor sport have hit back at the latest rumours about Fernando Alonso's Barcelona testing crash. German publications are openly doubting the honesty of Alonso's claim in Malaysia that he crashed because the steering on his McLaren-Honda 'locked'. The highly respected Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt said he had spoken to multiple people with knowledge of the telemetry data collected from the Spaniard's car. Their unanimous opinion is that Alonso's claim about the steering is 'impossible', as the data 'clearly shows that everything with the steering was fine'. 'Alonso never even tried to steer left, as the torque sensors on the steering wheel...
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