McLaren's Fernando Alonso has contradicted the account of his testing accident provided by his team and says that locked steering caused his crash last month. Alonso hit the wall at Turn 3 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and McLaren pinned the cause of the crash on the gusty conditions affecting the area on that day. But, having been cleared fit to return this weekend in Malaysia, Alonso says that his steering locked, causing him to crash out of testing. "It was a normal concussion, so I went to the hospital, I went in good condition, there is a time I don't remember in the hospital from 2 o'clock to 6 o'clock but everything was normal due to the medication they give you to go...
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