Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (McLaren), who suffered a violent accident during the Formula One Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, declared on Monday that the next time he gets in the car he will feel “more alive than ever.”
“My body is a bit sore, as if I had entered a giant washing machine and started to spin, but I don’t have any marks or anything swollen, or a large bruise. In two or three days I will be on the bike or doing some activity, “said Alonso on the program ‘El Partido de las 12 ′, on Cadena COPE.
Describing the moment of the accident, Alonso said: “I thought: this is going to be a good cake and see if I don’t hurt myself.” It’s the first thing I think of when I hit the wall and then the car rolls over, because it gets into the gravel and there I lose my position ».
«I see the sky, the gravel, then the sky, because you stumble and crash into everything you have in the car, in the passenger compartment. And just when the car stopped, you don’t really know where you are on the circuit either, I saw a hole to get out because I was upside down. I said to myself: I’m going out, “he recalled.
“Look what I was thinking: I say I’m going to get out and let the car keep tumbling, but I’m going to get out now. In other words, you don’t really know where you are, or if the car has stopped yet, or if it’s going to continue. So I say: I’m going out just in case. Hence it came out so fast, “he added.
“I wanted the car to stop now and not hit anything on my head. We are very subject and you are stumbling. You see how the nose is hitting the ground, then the side, you keep turning and turning and you want that in one of those turns the head is not exposed against the wall or against the fence or against the ground because it can be a serious injury », He commented.
“You shrink a little, you try to make yourself small inside the cabin so that it stops and there is no collision in the head,” he said.
«I saw that I was fine, that nothing had happened to me. A little sore from the blow because you have the steering column of the steering wheel between your knees and you are hitting it. I’m grateful that it was nothing and that (the Mexican) Esteban (Gutiérrez) was fine. He had the best part, but it is always important to know that both drivers are doing well, “he said.
Fernando Alonso said that “the first five minutes you feel the frustration and sadness of having abandoned a race”, but that “after two minutes you really think things over and tell yourself how lucky you are to be able to catch the plane and go home” .
The Asturian revealed how his call home was: “I said: ‘let me call my parents who will be extremely worried.’ I call my mother with a video call and I see her calmly on the sofa at home, with the blanket, having breakfast and I say: ‘How are you? Worried? And he says to me: ‘Yes, yes, but hey, nothing? As we have already seen you walking and getting out of the car… Here we are watching the race ».
“They were super quiet,” said Alonso, who added jokingly: “It seemed that it bothered them that I had called because they were watching the race and interrupted them.”
And about the morning of the day after, Alonso narrated: «This morning, when I woke up, the team doctor came, took my blood pressure, looked at how I had slept and gave me the ‘OK’ to travel. I feel good. I will try to play sports these days and I don’t think I will have to do any more tests these days, and I don’t think I will have any problems from now on ». he claimed.
Fernando Alonso highlighted the safety measures of the current single-seaters: «The impact tests that the teams have to pass in order for the car to be homologated are exceptional and have improved a lot in recent years and now practically even though the whole car is destroyed, all the aerodynamic appendages that we have, the wheels, the ailerons, the engine; everything can disintegrate in an accident except the cabin where we go. It has to remain intact as it has been. EFE
Alonso: “The next time I get in the car I will feel more alive than ever”
