Fernando Alonso has confirmed the surgery he was planning for January after last year’s cycling accident has already taken place. And that was the reason why he was only managing, and not driving for, a team in the Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend. The Spaniard revealed at the end of the 2021 season that his main priority once the festivities were over was to have the titanium plates removed from his jaw. They had been inserted following the bicycle crash he suffered in Lugano, Switzerland last February. Knocked over by a car that was turning into a supermarket car park, Alonso needed reconstructive surgery on his face and jaw, with teeth having to be extracted and plates...
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