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A month after finally being able to get on his car in Bahrain,

Fernando Alonso

is in a way reliving the start of the 2015 season. Then, he missed part of the preseason tests after starring in a controversial track start in Montmeló and it was even low in the first Grand Prix, the one held in Australia, so as not to take risks.

Now, after having to undergo surgery after being run over in Lugano, the shadow of that mishap is hanging over his shoulders again.

At the moment, it is not clear whether or not the Asturian will be able to get behind the wheel of his new Alpine, the car with which he returns to Formula 1 this year. The consequences of the pandemic have caused the tests to be limited only a few days into the second week of March, from 12 to 14 of that month, in Bahrain, the same setting where, two weeks later, the competition will start.

In his team, for the moment, they have been optimistic, but it is difficult not to look back six years.

The key date was February

22, 2015

.

It was then when a strange accident, with Montmeló's corner number four as the scene, altered all his plans.

The McLaren he was driving at the time went off the track and ended up colliding sideways with the wall.

There was much speculation about the causes and consequences of this mishap, but nothing was completely clarified.

The crash made Alonso have to go to the hospital to fully ensure his good physical condition.

His return to the tracks, despite everything, would be delayed until March 26, when, after passing the corresponding tests, he would be declared by the doctors fit to race in Sepang, in the second test of the season.

The first, Australia, had to miss it.

That accident, moreover, would end up being a bad omen.

2015 was an absolutely dire season for Fernando Alonso.

The unreliability of his McLaren, weighed down by multiple mechanical problems, and the abandonments became the tonic of a year in which he could only score 11 points.

A bad memory that, perhaps, will be compensated this year by the fact of being part of the team with which he experienced his greatest successes: a Renault that has been renamed Alpine.

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