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Top Stories of 2015; #18: Alonso suffers mysterious testing crash

It was the day Formula 1's conspiracy theorists hit the jackpot: Fernando Alonso crashes his McLaren against the inside concrete wall at Turn 3 of Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya in pre-season testing. He doesn't get out of the car. An ambulance is summoned, he is extracted from the car by marshals and medics, transported to the circuit's medical centre and then airlifted to hospital, where he would remain in Intensive Care for a couple of nights. The team declines to comment without hard facts, a spokesperson stating only: "He is fine, that's all I can say." This creates a news vacuum that is filled with wild speculation: he was electrocuted by the ERS; he blacked out following...
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