Fernando Alonso explains bizarre steering wheel detachment issue in Bahrain F1 practice
A tough day for 🌃Fernando Alonso in Bahrain was compounded by a steering mishap.
Fernando Alonso hit a strange issue in second practice for the Bahrain Grജand Prix on Friday, as the steering wheel detached itself from his Aston Martin Formula 1 car.
Alonso was braking for the🧸 final corner at the Bahrain International Circuit when the steering wheel suddenly came off, sending him straight onto the run-off.
The Spaniard was able to push the steering back into its position,🐻 turn the car in the right direction and return to the pitlane without any serious drama.
The bizarre issue even prompted FIA’s technical director Jo Bauer to pay a visit to the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aston Martin garage, likely for safety reasons.
Speaking afterwards, Alonso revealed that his da෴shboard had gone blank before the entire steering wheel came undone.
“The car [was] not working, and I could not shift gears at one point. ཧI had a dash off,” he said.
“I could not communicate with the team either and in the last corner, the wheel was off. So yeah, we realised that maybe ♉the steering column of the wheel or something had a problem.
— Formula 1 (@F1)Aston Martin quickly replaced the faulty unit with a fresh steering wheel, before sending ♈Alonso back out on track.
However, the two-time F1 champion finished the session more than a second off the pace in 15th place, while his teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll wound up in 19th position, only ahead of Sauber’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg.
As such, Alonso is bracing for a tough race at the Bahrain International Circuit, conceding the AMR25 simply lacks the pace to r🌟un competitively.
“I think it's going to be a tough weekend, unfortunately, we seem not to have the pace before coming here.
"The characteristics of Ba💫hrain was a little bit of a concern for us, for our package, and yeah, probably we confirm today that we ar𒆙e not competitive. It's going to be a tough weekend, but we will try to learn.
"We will try to pu🌃sh, and we are not giving up."♔
