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MCLAREN boss Ron Dennis said he was wrong to deny Fernando Alonso was concussed when he crashed in testing, as the team prepared to start the Formula One season without the two-time world champion.
Dennis said he could understand the criticism that came his way after he denied Alonso was concussed, only for him to be ruled out of the Australian Grand Prix on medical advice.
“It was not the best performance by me,” McLaren’s chairman and CEO was quoted as saying by British newspapers. “I understand why the press beat me up for being inaccurate. I wanted to be open and honest. I failed. But it is my objective to try to be as honest as possible in future.”
McLaren heads into the season-opener in downbeat mood with Alonso, returning from Ferrari, sidelined to avoid a second head impact and after its MP4-30 car struggled in testing. The nature of Alonso’s crash in Barcelona, labelled “very strange” by his manager, prompted speculation and McLaren had to deny he suffered an electric shock in the cockpit.
Dennis said no decision had been made about whether Alonso links up with Jenson Button for the second race in Malaysia. “There is a very understandable concern about the complexities of a second concussion — okay, he had concussion — within 21 days of the first impact,” Dennis said.
“This is all something very difficult to quantify, and certainly not within my capability. We know we have a mountain to climb and we’re in the process of climbing it.
FIA race director Charlie Whiting said the governing body had no deadline on completion of an investigation into the accident.
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