Episode 169 – Ciao, Adios, He’s Done
Formula 1 Podcast
3Legs 4Wheels F1
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The 2018 F1 Silly Season has just got even sillier (even though we thought it was already at peak silliness) with the announcement this afternoon that Fernando Alonso won’t be on the grid next year. [...]
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| 0:00.0 | I'm So Tuesday, it happened. It has happened. Yeah. It was coming and it has arrived. |
| 0:32.7 | I think we all knew that it was going to be the retirement announcement? |
| 0:41.0 | I think it's half of the announcement we were expecting. |
| 0:43.8 | I think a lot of people, particularly on Twitter, |
| 0:49.1 | Twitter has been going wild all morning about IndyCar and Alonzo going to IndyCar. |
| 0:52.2 | So I think it's really only half of what we were expecting. |
| 0:57.1 | I think there may still be more to come because it was titled Fernando will not race in Formula 1 in 2019. |
| 0:59.0 | Now we already know that he's going to be racing in some WEC. |
| 1:02.5 | Yes. |
| 1:03.2 | Races. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, it very pointedly hasn't mentioned retiring. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.2 | And there's no mention of IndyCar or the Indy 500 or anything like that in the statement. Yeah. All he's basically saying is he won't be in F1. Yes. I mean, it says won't race in F1 in 2019, but it's more or less, he put the video out as well. And he's done. Very dramatic video. It was. Some people called it tear jerking on Twitter. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm not sure I'd go that far personally, but yeah. |
| 1:31.4 | Depends if they're in tears, there must be some kind of jerk. |
| 1:33.6 | Yes. |
| 1:35.2 | So, I think there's still more to come on this. |
| 1:38.5 | I think so too. |
| 1:39.3 | I think IndyCar themselves have been tweeting about it. |
| 1:43.4 | Indianapolis Motor Speedway have tweeted about it. |
| 1:45.7 | There's a real campaign from the other side of the Atlantic by the feels of it. |
| 1:51.9 | Alonzo himself in his quotes, let me just scroll down and find this. |
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