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Here's the Orange McLaren Fernando Alonso Will Take to the Indianapolis 500 This Year
Here's the Orange McLaren Fernando Alonso Will Take to the Indianapolis 500 This Year-June 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:10

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We all knew Fernando Alonso wouldn’t leave his Indianapolis 500 legacy at just one start that ended in an in 2017, mainly because . So, after a year off from the race and a full racing schedule to distract him, Alonso’s back in bright orange this May.

Well, “McLaren orange” is the better term here, since Alonso’s will run as the McLaren F1 team’s cars this year.

There’s one thing that’s different, though: Alonso will run a Chevrolet engine in his No. 66 car at the end of May this year, instead of a Honda like the one that failed on him in his 2017 Indy 500 debut .

From McLaren’s :

The car, built at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, UK, sports the unique McLaren papaya orange, which echoes the colour chosen by Bruce McLaren for the team’s first Formula 1 Grand Prix entry in 1966 and reflects the livery of the McLaren Formula 1 team’s MCL34. [...]

The #66 race car is en route from the UK to the US ahead of the open test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on April 24. Meanwhile its sister test car will take to track at a closed test at the Texas Motor Speedway on April 9, in the hands of Fernando.

As might already be obvious, Alonso’s spending his retirement from F1 getting back to his goal of collecting one of the : Victories in the , Indy 500 and . He’s got wins in , and you already know which one he’s missing.

Alonso looked like he could win in his Indy 500 debut two years ago, which he despite still being a full-time McLaren F1 driver that year. (Who wouldn’t, given ?) He spent the race of how well he can race cars , but it wasn’t meant to be—like plastered in McLaren orange that year, Alonso’s car gave up . He was out of contention due to an engine failure.

But things are a lot different this year, no matter how similar they might look—from Alonso’s racing commitments to the engine powering his Indy 500 race car.

We’ll just have to see if they play out differently on track, too.

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