The McLaren team confirmed on Monday that Fernando Alonso will not act as his ambassador during 2020, a season where the Formula 1 world champion has yet to determine his agenda. However, the extinction of his last link with the Woking team facilitates the options for the Spaniard, who is finalizing negotiations with the Andretti Autosport team to dispute the Indianapolis 500 Miles.
Despite his failure last year with McLaren Racing, when he could not even qualify for the race in the Last Row Shootout, Alonso continues to consider the 500 Miles as an "absolute priority" for the new course.
After Monday's announcement, the options to repeat in the Brickyard with the team led by Zak Brown, who dreamed of having him in front of a third car, are completely ruled out.
"We want it to happen"
In this way, the best place to have Alonso is the Andretti Autosport team, with whom he already ran in Indianapolis in 2017. "We want it to happen. I just have to discover how to find a financing," Michael Andretti revealed a few weeks ago, head of said team.
The double winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans had begun in March his work as McLaren's ambassador and wore the colors blue and papaya in a couple of great prizes of the F1 World Cup (Italy and Abu Dhabi). In addition, he got behind the wheel of the MCL-34 during the pre-season tests of Pirelli in Bahrain.
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