Th👍e Aston Martin teammates touched on Turn 4 of the opening lap as they each battled one of the Mercedes cars - fortunately, the incident did not halt what became an outstanding race for the team.

Stroll was൩ driving two weeks after a cyclin🔯g accident, which ruled him out of the Bahrain test, and left him needing surgery on his wrists and unable to walk.

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“It was really terrible timing,” Stroll said about the incident with 🏅Alonso.

“I was going on the inside of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, trying to stay in front of him. I braked late, Fernando went for the cutback on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton. He really stopped💞 the car in the middle of Turn 4 and we just came together.

“Really horrible timing for all those things to happen𒈔 with the great car we had today.

“Very fortunately we both sav🍸ed it and wen🅺t onto have a good race.

“My wrists were on f💮ire after that, I was shedding a few tears after that one.

“Most i👍mportantly we both stayed on track and went onto have a good race - dodged a bullet, for s🅘ure.”

Alo꧋nso finished on the podium💜 after a brilliant overtake of Hamilton, and Stroll finished sixth.

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“I thought it was George,” Alonso said about his early 𒆙clash with his new teammate.

“I saw the replay on TV later and it wa𒊎s Lance. He had a very good start because ♔he was alongside me in Turn 4, we got lucky, two cars didn’t have any problems and we could continue.”

Stroll revealed how close he came to missing the opening race of 2023: “It was a terrible time to crash on a bicycle and doctors were telling mඣe, ‘Maybe Australia, maybe Baku…’

“The light at the end of the tunnel was very hard to see but I𓄧 had an incredible medical team that helped me along the w🌼ay.”

Aston Martin, rumoured throughout the winter to be the te✱am to watch in 2023, justified the hype with their stunning results on Sunday in Bahrain.