25 Feb 2015

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<b>PROTECTION SQUAD:</b> Medical staff hold sheets around Fernando Alonso as he's taken to a helicopter outside the Catalunya medical centre after crashing into the track wall on February 22 2015. <i>Image: AP / Manu Fernandez</i>
<b>PROTECTION SQUAD:</b> Medical staff hold sheets around Fernando Alonso as he's taken to a helicopter outside the Catalunya medical centre after crashing into the track wall on February 22 2015. <i>Image: AP / Manu Fernandez</i>

BARCELONA, Spain - McLaren's statement to the news media has not halted rampant speculation about the Catalunya track crash that put Fernando Alonso in hospital for four days... and counting.

Many insiders are blaming the UK-based team not only for waiting 28 hours to explain the bizarre crash into the track wall but then insisting it was entirely "normal".

Drivers are rarely knocked unconscious and helicoptered to hospital and when they reportedly then pass every medical test, they are not normally kept in hospital for several days. It is also not normal for a team's detailed account of a crash to be so widely contradicted by other evidence.

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