Formula One - Australia Grand Prix - Melbourne, Australia - 20/03/16 - The McLaren of F1 driver Fernando Alonso is retrieved following a crash with Haas F1 driver Esteban Gutierrez at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne. REUTERS/Handout
LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One's existing safety measures saved Fernando Alonso's life in a horrific crash on Sunday at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix but his escape has added a twist to the debate about proposed improvements to cockpit protection.
The Spaniard clambered from his demolished McLaren after the high-speed crash with Mexican Esteban Gutierrez's Haas and later posted an Instagram photograph of himself holding the Melbourne Herald Sun bearing the front-page headline 'Luckiest Man Alive'.
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