F1’s governing body has vowed to look into the circumstances surrounding the mysterious crash that hospitalised Fernando Alonso for four days.<\/p>\n
McLaren initially took 28 hours to issue a statement about last Sunday’s incident, triggering speculation there is more to the story than a “normal” gust of wind.<\/p>\n
Sebastian Vettel, who was following the McLaren-Honda, said his rival seemed to simply steer into the concrete wall, and a trackside photographer has told of how the impact was in fact “not violent”.<\/p>\n
The Woking based team denied wild speculation Alonso was electrocuted by KERS or overcome by battery fumes and in fact was already unconscious when he hit the wall.<\/p>\n
But Italy’s Autosprint reports that, following repeated problems with Honda’s MGU-K (KERS) system, McLaren has now intervened and a hybrid version will be run at this week’s final Barcelona test.<\/p>\n
Another conspiracy is that the 33-year-old suffered some sort of seizure, but to date no video or telemetry data of the incident has been released.<\/p>\n
Former F1 doctor Gary Hartstein, however, suggested on Twitter that Alonso’s long hospitalisation suggests there is more to the story than a simple concussion.<\/p>\n
“Not a scintilla of doubt that at best we’ve been given the tiniest sliver of truth, at worst treated like we were fools,” he said.<\/p>\n
So as Alonso left hospital on Wednesday after three nights, two of which were spent in intensive care, reports emerged that the FIA will now investigate the saga.<\/p>\n
“We will look at it very accurately in order to understand it properly and to see what the community can learn from it,” a spokesman for the Paris federation is quoted by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Sport Bild said the FIA has asked McLaren to provide its telemetry data, but another report at Italy’s La Gazzetta dello Sport clarified: “It is not an official investigation, but a request for information.”<\/p>\n
Former McLaren driver Gerhard Berger, meanwhile, thinks that amid the mysterious air of intrigue, the Woking team should release the data publicly.<\/p>\n
“To remove all doubt,” he is quoted by Sport Bild, “McLaren should put the telemetric data in the open.”<\/p>\n
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