Twitter Enlarge Fernando Alonso has been given the all-clear following a precautionary visit to hospital after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. An alarm on the chassis of his Ferrari was triggered when he bounced over kerbs at high-speed when rejoining the track after avoiding contact with Jean-Eric Vergne. The alarm is designed to alert medical staff when a driver has been subject to a G-force exceeding 18G, and in Abu Dhabi it measured that Alonso had experienced 28G vertically. As a result, Alonso was required to visit the medical centre at the circuit and then hospital, but before being given the all-clear he joked that he hadn't noticed any serious issues. "I still have all my teeth...
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