That Time When: Alonso Was Mysteriously Injured During Pre-Season Testing
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, buddy, and welcome back to another edition of the WTF one that time when podcast god have missed that |
| 0:07.3 | Have you? I haven't even introduced you yet, and you have just spoken that is the first time you've ever done it |
| 0:13.2 | Let's introduce each other now each other who is here |
| 0:17.6 | I'm here. I'm Matt. I'm Tommy your Tommy and I am done. You are dad. I am done lovely to have you gentlemen |
| 0:23.9 | It's been a little while since that time when last time is it when was the last one? I feel like it was a long time ago |
| 0:29.6 | If it was a long time that we have sat here and looked into each other's beautiful eyes. It's been a good few months. Yeah, it's been at least a day |
| 0:37.0 | So with F1 testing underway, we're going to be talking about the time when Fernando Alonzo was mysteriously injured during preseason testing in |
| 0:46.4 | 2015 |
| 0:47.6 | Now why was he mysteriously injured? What what what do we mean by that? |
| 0:52.6 | There's a it's just a very weird incident and there was so much speculation about |
| 0:57.9 | what it really was and |
| 1:00.4 | We'll go into it. Yeah, we will get into it |
| 1:02.7 | So let's start in 2015 and what was going on at McClaren at that time |
| 1:06.9 | We had Kevin Magnusson who was dropped after his debut season in Formula One and then we had Fernando Alonzo joining |
| 1:12.1 | Gentson button at the team which I imagine at the time was quite a highly anticipated prospect |
| 1:16.8 | Yes, it was was it was it we're right in saying that Magnusson you later found out that Magnusson was dropped via a text message |
| 1:23.7 | I think I think that was when he was fired from being a test driver |
| 1:27.8 | Okay, because this is the year that he |
| 1:30.0 | It that his first year was started off all right and then sort of he went back to third driver |
| 1:36.0 | They didn't yeah, he went back to the driver |
| 1:38.4 | McClaren like to do that. Yeah, they have their innovative three driver strategy. Oh, yeah, that was it |
| 1:45.0 | Now in 2015 also was the first year of Honda power and the beginning of the means |
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