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After crashing Alonso thought he was still a Ferrari driver

Ralf Bach, a respected German correspondent claims on his blog that speculation of Fernando Alonso's accident during Barcelona testing being caused when he suffered an electrical shock in the cockpit are still doing the rounds, despite McLaren's denials. He said electrocution victims are often confused and suffer memory loss, adding that immediately after Alonso's impact, the Spaniard thought he was still a Ferrari driver. Bach reports that while Mercedes and Renault have five electrocution fail-safes built in for the drivers, Honda's new ‘power unit' only has three. An electric shock, he added, may also not be seen in the telemetry. As a result, Autosprint report, the FIA now...
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