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Asturian driver Fernando Alonso , double Formula One world champion (2005 and 2006, with Renault ), said on Monday that the next sporting challenge he will carry out will be "in the highest category of motorsports at the highest level, either in Formula One, Resistance or IndyCar. "

Alonso, 32-time winner of a Formula One Grand Prix, does not rule out his return to competition in the premier class in 2021, after leaving the circuit in 2018 to face other challenges such as Endurance races - he won the World Cup (WEC) with Toyota the 'Super-Season' 2018-19- or participate in the Dakar rally. " The search for challenges and options for the following years is something that I have been considering since the end of 2019, when I decided to get into the adventure of the Dakar rally . It was a coin in the air and it is an experience that I will repeat in the future," said Alonso. .

" I have a good physical level and motivation and for the Dakar I have a few years ahead of me, so now I would like to focus on the highest category of motorsport, be it Formula One, Endurance or IndyCar. I have an idea in mind , but the The next challenge will be important and at the highest level, "admitted Alonso, in a talk organized by the Real Madrid University School-European University.

The Asturian driver also spoke of the crisis derived from COVID-19 and which, he believes, will affect Formula One. "Formula One is not going to be on the sidelines of the crisis or the problems of this pandemic. I am not talking about pilots or big factories, but also sponsorship problems. There are many companies that put their logo on a car that will have to see their sponsorships, "he said.

"This crisis is going to affect everyone and more people who lived in too inflated numbers, and Formula One was surely one of them. Now we will have to reduce expenses, standardize parts of the cars so that more than fifty percent One hundred are the same for everyone and there is only a small window of development, but not unlimited, "he confessed.

"With a little creativity and common sense, Formula One can take advantage of the difficulties," said Alonso, who assured that in motorsports "everything is taken to the extreme."

" Nothing is ever enough . The robot you buy today in a month is not worth it, but I am also talking about budgets, personnel or the different departments that make up this sport. Everything is taken to the extreme, while in other categories everything is more limited "he concluded.

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