Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"When Alonso was outpaced by a team-mate, he didn’t respond well"
When Andrea Montermini crashed his Simtek in practice at Barcelona in 1994, everyone held their breath. As the car came to rest, there was no sign of movement in the cockpit, and when screens were erected - to thwart the prying eye of TV cameras - we began to worry.
Formula 1 was in a jittery state at that time, and for good reason. Four weeks earlier, Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger had been killed at Imola; two weeks earlier, Karl Wendlinger had been grievously injured at Monaco.
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