Fernando Alonso said the Malaysian Grand Prix had been probably the hardest race of his life after the Spaniard battled with a gearbox problem before retiring one lap from the end.
"From the start things went wrong," Alonso told Spanish television. "On the formation lap my gearbox broke and I had no clutch during the race, so I had to brake in a weird way. I had to first gear down and then push the throttle hard so it would engage the gear for that corner.
Despite the problems that made driving the car a titanic struggle, Alonso fought hard with Jenson Button's McLaren for eighth place before an engine failure ended his race.
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Can anyone decipher what he meant?