Fernando Alonso said that during his Formula 1 hiatus, Max Verstappen and George Russell were the ones that made him tune in. At the end of the 2018 season, Alonso called time on his second stint with McLaren, and at the point, his Formula 1 career also. He would make a comeback in 2021 with Alpine, but during those couple of years away his schedule was far from empty, with the Spaniard competing in the World Endurance Championship, forming one-third of the 2018 and 2019 Le Mans winning team, part of their 2018-19 WEC title-winning season. He also made two Indy 500 appearances in that time, failing to qualify for the 2019 staging before finishing P21 in 2020, as well as making his Dakar...
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