As a 26-year-old lap record falls, Oliver Jarvis leads the way at the 2019 Rolex 24 at Daytona qualifying to put the Mazda Team Joest #77 on pole position.
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Fernando Alonso was born on 29 July 1981 in Oviedo, Spain.
He is a two-time FIA Formula One World Champion in 2005 and 2006 with the Renault team.
He made his F1 debut with the Minardi team in 2001.
For the 2018 F1 season, he will drive for the McLaren Renault Formula 1 Team.
He will also compete in the 2018 Rolex 24 At Daytona for United Autosports and the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans for the Toyota GAZOO Racing team.
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Fernando Alonso says that McLaren have the potential to be better in 2019 after a number of compromises taken with the MCL33 only brought “downsides” in ’18.
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McLaren did register brief improvements in 2018, turning to Renault Sport customer power units after a disastrous second spell win Honda. 2019 brings a new driver line-up and the need to stop another slump.
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Max Verstappen has stated that he and a group of other drivers could have copied Lewis Hamilton in winning the 2018 world championship for Mercedes.
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Mazda led two of the three sessions on Saturday in the DPi class, with PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports doing likewise in LMP2. Wayne Taylor Racing and Dragonspeed interjected themselves during the afternoon session.
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SEASON REVIEW: The Ten Biggest News Stories From The 2018 Formula 1 Season
As we look back on the 2018 Formula 1 season, we reflect on the ten of the biggest stories that erupted over the course of the season!
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Season Review: 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship – Driver Rankings – 1-10
In a season where F1’s exciting new generation produced yet more top-drawer performances, there was still nobody who could hold a candle to the sport’s resident maestro…
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Zak Brown says McLaren will need to ‘get back to basics’ for the 2019 Formula 1 Season as he reflects on a ‘difficult’ 2018 campaign.
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Although McLaren have ruled out joining the FIA World Endurance Championship from the start of the ‘Hypercar’ era, in 2020, a late season entry, looking at partaking in the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans, is “in discussion”.
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Flavio Briatore is confident Alonso would return to Formula 1 if given the chance by Ferrari or Mercedes
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McLaren Racing has confirmed that they will use Chevrolet engines in the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Fernando Alonso will once again drive for the team and will be hoping for better luck than his last effort in 2017 with Honda power.
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F1 has said goodbye to one of its most tenacious, aggressive and relentless competitors, and a remarkable 2012 season saw Fernando Alonso at his brilliant best.
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A look in to who will no longer be on the grid in the 2019 FIA Formula 1 World Championship and where they will be heading.
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NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson has said that he is interested in taking part in a road course races in the IndyCar Series in the future. The Hendrick Motorsports driver said he has had multiple offers to race in the Indy 500 in the past.
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Fernando Alonso completed his final weekend in Formula 1 for at least a year, labelling the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as a “touching” weekend.