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5最新开奖结果:Lance Stroll - his teammate next season - on Lap 22.
Stroll retired (and was given a three-place grid penalty for his role✃ in the incident) but Alons🙈o, 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 Strol🔥l's slipstream.
"I moved to the side to leave the slipstream, and he also moved. It was a bi📖t 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 th🌳ought 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 qualify෴ing. It was my best race of the season, but the fear is still in my stomach.
“After the crash, I co♈uldn't stop thinking about it 🐠for the rest of the race. I just wanted to finish the race."
The veteran Spaniard was given a 30-second time penalty, relegating him to 15th, after ꦫHaas protested that he was not shown a black and orange flag wh💯en his wing mirror came loose as he overtook Kevin Magnussen.
Alonso, 41, will be alongside Stroll in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2023 driver line-up f🐟or Aston Martin as the replacement꧟ for the retiring Sebastian Vettel.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade c﷽overing everything from A🧸merican sports, to football, to F1.
