I have no great nostalgia for past eras of F1 and I have no doubt that today’s F1 cars are easily faster than what was running a decade and a half ago, but just take in how fast 2005's championship-winning Renault looks, even today.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
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39-Year-Old Fernando Alonso Gets Clearance To Participate In Formula One Young Driver Test
Two-time Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso is re-joining the grid next year after two seasons away, taking up the Alpine F1 Team seat vacated by Daniel Ricciardo at the end of this season. The Spaniard is wasting no time getting back into the swing of things, as he has already run a slew of […]
Fernando Alonso Is Back Where He Belongs
Fernando Alonso is coming back to Formula One in 2021 after tooling around at the Indianapolis 500 and at Le Mans. I have no idea whether he and Renault will do all that great considering Mercedes will probably dominate again next year ahead of rules changes in 2022, but one can dream. Read more…
Fernando Alonso Makes Surprise Return To Formula 1: Report
As Spanish driver Fernando Alonso plans to try the Indianapolis 500 again after a rough race last year, he’s also diving back into Formula 1 with his winning Renault team.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Fernando Alonso Makes Surprise Return To Formula 1: Report
As Spanish driver Fernando Alonso plans to try the Indianapolis 500 again after a rough race last year, he’s also diving back into Formula 1 with his winning Renault team.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Fernando Alonso Will Attempt To Qualify For The Indy 500 In This Car
If you disregard Dale Coyne hiring a racist shitbag and the series selling to Roger Penske, the biggest story out of IndyCar these last few years has to be Fernando Alonso running the big one, going for a motorsport triple crown, racing in the Indy 500. The Spanish F1 and Le Mans champ has again […]
After An Ugly Indy 500 Fernando Alonso And McLaren Vow To Give It Another Shot
The Indianapolis 500 has really really not been kind to Fernando Alonso. In 2018 he ran a fast but fragile Honda powerplant which blew up on him after leading the race. In 2019 his McLaren-entered car was a proper clusterfuck and didn’t even make the big show, bumped out in qualifying. The former Formula One […]
After An Ugly Indy 500 Fernando Alonso And McLaren Vow To Give It Another Shot
The Indianapolis 500 has really really not been kind to Fernando Alonso. In 2018 he ran a fast but fragile Honda powerplant which blew up on him after leading the race. In 2019 his McLaren-entered car was a proper clusterfuck and didn’t even make the big show, bumped out in qualifying. The former Formula One […]
Fernando Alonso’s 2020 Indy Car Won’t Get Honda Power In The End: Report
A few days after reports suggested that F1 and Le Mans champion Fernando Alonso’s 2020 Indy 500 attempt would be Honda-powered, things are looking different. If Alonso wants to make his racing triple crown this year, he’ll have to do it with a Chevy motor behind him.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Fernando Alonso’s 2020 Indy Car Won’t Get Honda Power In The End: Report
A few days after reports suggested that F1 and Le Mans champion Fernando Alonso’s 2020 Indy 500 attempt would be Honda-powered, things are looking different. If Alonso wants to make his racing triple crown this year, he’ll have to do it with a Chevy motor behind him.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Comment Of The Day: Familiar Fernando Feeling Edition
Fernando Alonso has had one hell of a career with some serious highs and quite a few lows. One of those lows was found in his second stint at McLaren with failures seemingly coming every day. It’s likely a part of his life that he’d like to forget all about. He occasionally races for Toyota […]
Here’s Two-Time F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso Fixing His Own Broken Race Car
There is something very satisfying about seeing Fernando Alonso, the two-time champion in F1, where the driver is just a tiny part of a gigantic team of engineers, lying in the sand helping fix his busted Toyota in the Dakar.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Weekend Motorsports Roundup: November 9-10
The Formula One Series is over. Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes ran away with the prizes and all we’re left with is a hole in our Sunday schedules. No worries, though. There’s plenty of other racing to see out there both today and tomorrow.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
What The Hell Is Going On With The Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team?
McLaren has partnered with Arrow Electronics in order to launch a full-time IndyCar program for the 2020 season. There’s just one problem: everything seems like it’s been a complete and total mess. If you’ve missed one part of the drama, you’ve missed ‘em all. Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Fernando Alonso Won’t Do WRC, Highlighting How Tough Rallying Really Is
With Fernando Alonso confirmed to be racing at Dakar—thus taking on yet another impressive challenge in the motorsport world—everyone has been wondering what’s next. Maybe rallying? The two-time Formula One champion is decidedly against the thought of joining the World Rally Championship. And it all comes down to…Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Fernando Alonso Is Officially On The Dakar Rally Roster With Toyota
Two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso has really been living life since he retired from the series in 2018, aside from, you know, that thing that happened at the Indianapolis 500 this year. He’s been competing in all kinds of series and disciplines across the world, and the next up is the Dakar Rally.Read more… […]
The 2005 Japanese Grand Prix Was One Of The Best F1 Races of All Time, And Now You Can Re-Live It
The 2019 Japanese Grand Prix is currently on pause, with all Saturday track action canceled due to Typhoon Hagibis. That means there’s no Formula One Action on TV, but there’s a silver lining: F1 just used it as an excuse to live stream the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix, one of the most exciting races ever.Read […]
Give Us Your Most Absurd Fake Fernando Alonso Rumors
What’s Fernando Alonso going to do in the future? It seems like everyone has some sort of an opinion or has heard some absurd rumor about what the two-time Formula One World Championship and Le Mans-winning driver will be doing next year—so why not throw your own idea into the mix?Read more… Continue Reading at […]
McLaren Won’t Let Its Massive Indy 500 Failure Derail Its IndyCar Future
McLaren tried and failed, miserably, to run the Indianapolis 500 this year, from the wrong paint color causing the team to miss nearly two days of track time to mistakes in converting inches into the metric system. But that and its failure to qualify for the big race won’t derail its IndyCar plans—whatever those may…Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
McLaren Will Host a $50,000 Monument to Its Failure at the Indy 500
Cheesy sayings might get annoying over time, but that doesn’t make them any less true. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched, after all, would’ve been great advice for those in charge of booking McLaren’s Indy 500 hospitality—now an extravagant monument to its own amazing failure to make the race.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com