Autosport | 20th April 2017
ALONSO'S INDY DREAM
It started as a joke, a throwaway comment from McLaren team boss Zak Brown to Fernando Alonso about racing in the Indianapolis five hundred. Then something amazing happened. It evolved from a joke, into a mad idea, into a long shot, into a possibility, into a likelihood, into a signed and sealed deal for Alonso to become the first active Formula 1 megastar to commit to racing at the Brickyard since Nigel Mansell. When the news broke on Wednesday of last week, many couldn’t believe it. Would McLaren and Honda really let its star
‘defect’ to Indy and miss F1’s blue-riband race, the Monaco Grand Prix, to do it? That’s exactly what has happened.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Autosport 20th April 2017.