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Wrecker Transporting Fernando Alonso’s Wrecked Indy 500 Practice Car Also Wrecks
Wrecker Transporting Fernando Alonso’s Wrecked Indy 500 Practice Car Also Wrecks-May 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:09

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We all misjudge things from time to time, like the at Indianapolis Motor Speedway or the height of a tunnel in relation to a tall truck. Sometimes, we get several (literal) strikes in one day—like ’s practice car, which wrecked on a wrecker on Wednesday.

Go ahead and say that five times fast.

Alonso, who’s back for IndyCar’s biggest event after that and later from Formula One, hasn’t started off too well in practice for this year’s race. An electrical issue took him out of the first session on Tuesday after 50 laps, and, after making 46 laps on Wednesday, he went for a spin that crumpled the back end of his car.

But that spin wouldn’t be the last wreck his orange saw Wednesday, as Paul Tracy shared an Instagram photo of the wrecker transporting his car... also wrecking.

The post, picked up by , said the wrecker got stuck in the garage area after evidently misjudging the height of a tunnel:

An electrical problem followed by the wrecking of Alonso’s car both in and out of his own hands already isn’t the best sign, given his bad luck in open-wheel cars these days and 2017 racethat went from successful—, even—to sour with . (It truly was a blip, in terms of .)

But maybe that will change over the course of the next 10 days leading up to the race, and we’ll get to see that good result that .

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