F1 United States Grand Prix: Fernando Alonso admits “fear in stomach” after Lance Stroll crash
Alpine driver Alonso collided heavily with Aston Martin’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll - his teammate next season - on Lap 22.
Stroll retired (and was given a three-place grid penalty for hꦗis role in the incident) but Alonso, somehow, continued to finish seventh.
"I'm happy to be here talking with you because I could surely be in the medical centre🌄. So I'm happy for that," he told DAZN.
"We were lucky with the first safety car and 📖then, on the restart, I tried to take Stroll's slipstream.
"I moved ꦍto the side to leave the slipstream, and he a♑lso moved. It was a bit of bad luck that we didn't understand each other.
"When I was in the air, I was a bit scared because it was very dangerous. When I landed on the asphalt, I thought it was race over. That's what I thought when I entered 🔴the pits.
"In the end, to finish 🅰seventh is incredible🎐. The last laps, I was pushing like it was qualifying. It was my best race of the season, but the fear is still in my stomach.
🔴“After the crash, I couldn't stop thinking about it for the rest of the race. I just wanted to fওinish the race."
The veteran Spaniard was given a 30-second time penalty, relegating him to 15th, afteꦬr Haas protested that he was not shown a black and orang🐻e flag when his wing mirror came loose as he overtook Kevin Magnussen.
Alonso, 41, will be alongside Stroll in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 driver line-up for Aston Martin as the replacement for theꦗ retiring Sebastian Vettel.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a deca🍌de covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
