After three years in the doldrums, McLaren driver Fernando Alonso is optimistic that in 2018 his team can challenge for fourth place in the constructors' championship, as the Woking outfit begin their Renault powered era, the manufacturer that took the Spaniard to two Formula 1 titles over a decade ago. Despite a troubled preseason testing in Barcelona, Alonso is upbeat and told Reuters, “I think we should be optimistic. I think we had some reliability issues in testing but all of them are fixed now and the team did an amazing job in the past two or three weeks to have the car 100 percent for Australia. “I think being in the points, being close to the top five, I think that will be the...
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