There are 47 days until the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, but on-track preparations for Fernando Alonso have already begun. The 37-year-old Spaniard spent Tuesday getting acclimated to the No. 66 McLaren Chevrolet during a private one-car test at Texas Motor Speedway. “It was definitely quite special,” Alonso told IndyCar.com “The oval is very different to (Indianapolis Motor Speedway), so you feel really the banking and you feel the compression on the body. It's definitely physically different, the feeling you get, so that was interesting.” The outing gave Alonso, a two-time Formula One champion, the opportunity to re-ignite the memory banks with...
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