Symonds disproves `brake test` theories

Pat Symonds mocked the dubious credentials of those experts who decried the Lewis Hamilton incident on Sunday as a `brake test` by his former McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso.

“They`re not as expert as they think,” said Renault`s engineering chief.

He was armed with telemetry print-outs from Alonso`s R28, showing that the Spaniard was hard on the throttle when Hamilton hit him during the Bahrain Grand Prix.

“So all I can say from our side is there`s no blame attributable to Fernando, which is what some of the speculation might be,” Symonds added.

The Spanish daily Diario AS took a harder line than simply exonerating Alonso of blame, by headlining that the 26-year-old was the `victim of Hamilton`s stupidity.

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Neither driver, however, turned on one another in any serious way, despite their spectacular falling out as team-mates last year.

“The incident doesn`t make much sense to me, but thankfully it didn`t affect my race too much,” Alonso told the Spanish press corps.

Source: GMM

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