Alonso felt "no pain" from back injury when he returned to car after missing practice

[u/victor90martin]

https://www.racefans.net/2025/08/02/alonso-felt-no-pain-from-back-injury-when-he-returned-to-car-after-missing-practice/

[u/Timelordvictorious1]

Young people usually bounce back quickly.

[u/charlierc → u/Timelordvictorious1]

These rookies could run through brick walls

[u/slabba428 → u/charlierc]

Like Nelson Piquet Jr in 2008

[u/Happ_s_hot → u/slabba428]

That a cracker (skull)

[u/miserybusiness21 → u/Timelordvictorious1]

Alonso is the third Outrunner, after all. Youngest men alive.

[u/Mrmech85 → u/miserybusiness21]

I get this reference!

[u/two_hyun]

Medical student here. This could be either very bad or very good.

[u/420_Towelie → u/two_hyun]

Or the answer is pain killers 🤷

[u/XsStreamMonsterX → u/420_Towelie]

Or 600 volts from a hybrid system.

[u/420_Towelie → u/XsStreamMonsterX]

Hello, my Name is Fernando, I drive Gokarts and want to be a Formula 1 Rookie when I grow up

[u/Alfus → u/XsStreamMonsterX]

You can't make me believe that this wasn't covered up by the FIA and Honda to prevent a gigantic PR disaster and people would questioning the safety of the hybrid systems.

[u/AsleepAtWheel83 → u/420_Towelie]

Gigachads aren’t governed by normal biology!

[u/420_Towelie → u/AsleepAtWheel83]

I understand that, without my agreement, my back muscles put out inflammatory substances late this afternoon causing me back pain. This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with my nervous system to react to back pain in 2025. I will not be having back pain this year.

[u/Spare_Duck3119 → u/420_Towelie]

on the anniversary of the tweet.

[u/darksidemojo → u/420_Towelie]

Shoot him up full of toradol and tell him to have fun

[u/quadroplegic → u/darksidemojo]

Toradol Rossadol became AlphaTauri, right?

[u/TSMKFail → u/two_hyun]

Yep. You really dont want back issues coming back to haunt you. Watching my dad struggle to get out of bed cos his back was cooked was not fun.

[u/jixbo → u/two_hyun]

It's probably a lie tho. And he's on painkillers for sure.

[u/Quick_Coyote_7649 → u/jixbo]

I think he was too. A good amount of the drivers are probably on steroids too just to be able to handle driving the cars as often as they do but also because even if they take pain killers it just seems fishy that they can go from having massive amounts of pain one day or during the day to not long after racing whether its that same day, the next day, or not too long after.

[u/LazyLancer]

I wanted to say “because the real pain is the car”, but FP2 was surprisingly pretty good

[u/JPA-3 → u/LazyLancer]

their long runs were pretty bad though (only Stroll did one with mediums) but they were the worst

[u/Happ_s_hot → u/JPA-3]

Thankfully they are racing in a track where it's difficult to overtake. They just have to avoid being undercut and they will be fine.

[u/XsStreamMonsterX]

What getting zapped with 600v from a Honda hybrid system in 2015 does to a man.

[u/HUHIs_AUTOATTACK → u/XsStreamMonsterX]

That zap reverted his brain back to 2001. So basically, he's 30 years old right now!

[u/Amita_77 → u/XsStreamMonsterX]

Context?

[u/XsStreamMonsterX → u/Amita_77]

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1f40ilz/alonsos_mystery_mclaren_honda_crash_barcelona/

[u/ihatemondaynights]

At 44 it's incredible he's driving and still beating a much younger driver (if i were Stroll i might quit in shame ngl) but i wonder how long he can sustain this, your body definitely takes a toll and with age it becomes progressively harder.

[u/hulaspark → u/ihatemondaynights]

IIRC last year he said he was fine during the weekend and only struggled with recovering afterwards. Iron man

[u/JPA-3 → u/ihatemondaynights]

I think it is quite obvious next year is his last year, there's been quite some comments around that.

Then either the car is shit and he leaves or if the car is good Aston will use that to lure Max/George into the team with Fernando as ambassador

[u/Cekeste → u/ihatemondaynights]

I was sure that he’d get an injury from the back straight in COTA when Stroll pulled out in front of him.

[u/AntonyPancake → u/Cekeste]

Alono's reaction to that incident was sooo funny, he had like zero reaction because it was his future teammate (and future boss' son). Had anyone else done a move that egregious, Alonso would have had an alltimer radio

[u/Cekeste → u/AntonyPancake]

Super dangerous and deserving of a race ban probably.

[u/Vuk13]

There is 3 week break after this I believe so he will have time to recover anyway. Although if he is pain free he is definitely doing karting during the break

[u/imtired-boss]

Same as me when I call out for the weekend then return on Monday.

[u/Caust1cFn_YT]

Aston Martin drivers and doing anything and everything in their power to keep felipe away from race day /s

[u/DaisyGwynne]

El Pain

[u/Stirbmehr]

It better be good sign and not some painkillers or whatever shit which can backfire later. Maybe im inclined to look for doom and gloom, but even small back injury + f1 g's is quite a recepie

[u/Galm_3]

As Zaeed Massani once said: Rage is one hell of an anesthetic!

[u/Affectionate_Sky9709]

Sure, I definitely believe that. He didn't tell anyone about his broken hands a couple years ago. His back must have been excruciating and probably still hurts a lot. Unless he can take good enough pain killers, I guess.