Alonso reveals damning verdict as dangerous issue continues to hurt Aston Martin

The Spaniard had a superb start, and during the first couple of laps, he was running in tenth place.

That did not last long, he told GPblog among others after the race. "Obviously, completely out of position, so I fall back to P17 or whatever and then we have a small issue on data that we have to stop the car. Then we think we repair it and then we went back out again. And I think another issue appears so we have to stop the car for the second time."

On Thursday, team principal Adrian Newey said: "Fernando is of the feeling that he can't do more than 25 laps consecutively before he will risk permanent nerve damage to his hands."

Despite changes introduced for this weekend, the two-time world champion added that the vibrations were "similar to Bahrain".

He explained: "It's not the best feeling driving with this level of vibrations. I think Honda thinks that the vibrations on the battery are reduced since Bahrain with some of the modifications, but that didn't happen to the chassis yet because they need to isolate the battery in a different way.