Early indications were that this was an abnormal incident - the relatively light damage to the car, the fact it was still facing forward, the comments from Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, who was following Alonso, that the crash "looked strange", and the speed with which Alonso was flown to hospital all created a confusing picture.
It's got so many strange sounds, things sped up, explosions, all sorts of imaginative sounds.
Which is strange, given that coruscating speed was one of the hallmarks of Wenger's greatest sides.
Rand's stand Trigger happy The price is wrong Little time for celebration Imitation games ReprintsAs the media juggernaut gathered speed, the strange intensity of America's relationship with Mrs Clinton was laid bare.
One of the strange things about the speed of China's transformation is how it heightens your awareness not only of dramatic changes but also of what doesn't change.
The sprints remain the extreme razor edge of all athletic competition, a strange, intoxicating quest for speed, relentlessly whittled away at by an industrial-scale machinery of expendable human material.
This will start off by being at normal speed, but strange things will happen as it nears the black hole.
"We are awash in things," James Gleick writes in "Faster," "in information, in news, in the old rubble and shiny new toys of our complex civilization, and -- strange, perhaps -- stuff means speed.
There's plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic, and these strange, flinty, cigarette-stained narratives speed by, offering lots of surface tension and compelling deeper passions.
