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Fernando Alonso Still Isn't Sure If He'll Stay With The McLaren F1 Team
Fernando Alonso Still Isn't Sure If He'll Stay With The McLaren F1 Team-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:19

Here’s something you probably didn’t know: The McLaren-Honda Formula One team isn’t great these days. Wild, right? The team’s two-time champ, Fernando Alonso, has in the same vein as a teenager saying they’ll never talk to you again, and he’s still not sure if he’ll stay around.

Alonso’s had a lot of opinions about the McLaren team during his time there, this year especially. He said back in June that he’d if it didn’t start winning races by September—hm, guess that one didn’t happen—and it became a battle of “It’s me or the engine” when McLaren to drop its awful Honda power unit.

Well, McLaren did the dang thing (the second one, not the “winning races” part). The team will run a Renault engine for the 2018 race season, but Alonso’s still keeping us guessing—on everything but whether he’ll go to the Verizon IndyCar Series next year.

Here’s where he’s at now, from :

Following the McLaren-Honda split, it has been expected that Alonso will stay at the newly Renault-powered British team next year. However, Alonso’s self-imposed September contract deadline has long expired. A second self-imposed deadline of “before Austin” is fast approaching.

Spain media outlet El Mundo Deportivo quotes him as saying: “There is still no decision. So we’ll see. I continue to have all the options open.”

Since Alonso’s Indianapolis 500 run this year, which went from “Wow, this dude could win” to “Should’ve known that would be his luck” when , the Alonso-to-IndyCar storyline .

But Autoweek reports that Alonso said he’s not looking at IndyCar for the near future, and that his goal in the short term is to win some of the biggest races there are. From Autoweek:

“As I have said several times, one of my goals is to be the best driver in the world, the most complete in the world, and for that I still believe you have to win in other categories, too, and especially the ‘Triple Crown,’” said Alonso, referring to the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. “That is one of my goals.

“Sometimes we focus on F1 because it is the best competition in the world of maximum technology, but there are other categories with other cars — with less technology — that require different driving and different skills, and it is a major challenge for someone who specializes in something else.”

Whether or not Alonso wants to challenge himself with a Renault engine, well, we’ll find out soon. Maybe. Or maybe he’ll just set another decision “deadline” for next month. He’ll have to decide before the next race season, at least.

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