Recently, Red Bull Colombia published a video on its social networks where you can see David Alonso at the controls of a CFMoto 675SR-R competing against an airplane on what looks like a flight track. So far so good, and also, as expected, it is the CFMoto Aspar Team Moto2 rider who manages to take the victory.
At the bottom of the publication you could read: “Epic comebacks, we start☝️: that of @d.alonso80 against a plane🇨🇴”. However, days later, Mundo GP shared a second sequence on Instagram, taken at the end of the track where the test and the actual filming of the advertisement took place. In it we can see (supposedly) the pilot himself going to the ground after trying to brake and spinning several times.
Is it really David Alonso who was driving in the accident?
This is the doubt that arises after viewing the two sequences several times and noticing some differences between them. Mainly, there is one aspect that leaves no room for doubt and it is simply that in the video where we can see the supposed David Alonso crashing at the end of the runway, there is no trace of the plane with which he competes in the acceleration race. Even if it is on a higher plane, it should be visible at the beginning of the recording.
Then there is another key point in this matter and that is none other than the colors that David Alonso wears in his kit during the filming of the advertisement. In this case it is obvious how the corporate pink of the CFMoto Aspar Team is present both in most of the helmet and in the upper section of the gloves, something that does not happen in the recording that shows us the spectacular accident.
Finally, we have the quality of the video: Does anyone really believe at this point that current smartphones offer recordings of such poor quality? We are completely sure that not. That is why it makes us doubt even more about the veracity of the document. All this without taking into account two relevant aspects in this whole matter.
The first of them is that neither David Alonso himself nor anyone from his team has come out to validate or deny the accident. On the other hand, it is practically impossible for a Moto2 rider not to be able to calculate the braking distance and finish in the same way as the person piloting the 675SR-R in the accident. Having said all this, whether or not it was the Colombian pilot who was at the controls, we are glad that everything ended in a scare.
