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Alonso can do full season after Fuji date change

McLaren Formula One driver Fernando Alonso can compete for Toyota in every round of the World Endurance Championship this season after organisers moved the Japanese event to avoid a US Grand Prix clash. They announced at a presentation in Paris on Friday that the Six Hours of Fuji had been brought forward to October 14, ensuring that the Spaniard can feature for Toyota at the manufacturer's home track. Alonso wants to win the Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race in France as part of the "triple crown of motorsport" achieved only by the late Briton Graham Hill. Hill, like Alonso a two-time Formula One world champion, won Le Mans, the Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500 in the...
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