The Aston Martin teammates touched on Turn 4 of the opening lap as they each battled one of the Mercedes cars🐎 - fortunately, the incid🥃ent did not halt what became an outstanding race for the team.

Stroll was driving two weeks after a cycling accidentꦗ, which rulꦯed 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 t🧜he inci𓄧dent with Alonso.

“I was going on the inside of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell, trying to stay in front of him. I braked late, Fernando went for the cutback on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton. He r🅷eally stopped the car in the middle of Turn 4 and we just came together.

“Really h🤪orrible timing for all those things to happen with the great car we had today.

“Very fo🌳rtunately we both saved it and 🌳went onto have a good race.

“M𒅌y wrists were on fire after that, I was shedding a few tears🥀 after that one.

“Most importantly we both stayed on track and went onto have a go💛od race - dodged a bullet, for sure.”

Alonso finished on the podium after a brilli𒐪ant overtak༺e of Hamilton, and Stroll finished sixth.

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“I thought it wa𝐆s George,” Alonso said about his early cla🎉sh with his new teammate.

“I saw the replay on TV later and it was 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 me, ‘Maybe Australia, maybe Baku…’

“The light at the end of the tunnel was very hard to see but I had ༒an incredible medical team that helped me along t🐈he way.”

Aston Martin, rumoured throughout the winter to b♋e the team to watch i👍n 2023, justified the hype with their stunning results on Sunday in Bahrain.