Alonso will be the sole driver for Aston Martin on the second day of F1 testing as the team awaits news on Stroll following his injury.
was ruled out of this week's three-day test after a cycling incident left him with what team boss Mike Krack has now revealed is a wrist injury.
Felipe Drugovich took over the car for Thursday morning's session, although his running was compromised by an electrical issue before he handed the car to Alonso for the second session. It's understood that even if Drugovich is listed alongside Alonso for Saturday, it won't necessarily mean that there are still doubts over Stroll's participation in the race weekend, as the team believes that it would still be useful for its reserve driver to do some more mileage this week., is currently committed to the Cape Town Formula E event and could not attend the test, but he is scheduled to be in Bahrain for the race weekend.
"So he was cycling and he had a small incident and hurt himself. And for precautionary reasons, we decided it's better to wait a little bit, and be ready next week.""This is his personal thing. So he is injured on the hand, on the wrist. But I don't want to go into detail, because this is also privacy."Krack said that Drugovich's appearance in the test was in case he is needed for the race weekend.
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