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Brown: Alonso a McLaren driver ‘first and foremost’

Fernando Alonso Zak Brown boss insists that Fernando Alonso is primarily a McLaren driver despite his five-race Toyota World Endurance Championship program. Alonso will race the Japanese marque’s TS050 Hybrid LMP1 at WEC rounds which do not clash with Formula 1, including his debut in June’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The Spaniard has been freed up to compete in all five WEC races this calendar year after the Fuji date shift and will miss only the Prologue (official pre-season test) in April, which clashes with the Bahrain Grand Prix. Brown maintains that Alonso is merely a driver and not ambassador for Toyota, with McLaren his first priority. “Fernando is effectively restricted to just...
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