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Alonso’s WEC, Toyota involvement ‘very minimised’ – McLaren

McLaren has described Fernando Alonso’s commitment to Toyota and the World Endurance Championship as minimal and emphasised he’s a Formula 1 driver being loaned to endurance racing despite the date switch of the 6 hours of Fuji being solely to cater for the Spaniard. During the launch of the 2018-19 WEC ‘Super-season’ it was confirmed the Fuji event has been pushed forward one week in order to avoid a clash with F1’s United States Grand Prix to which free up Alonso to compete at both. The decision has been hit with a backlash of criticism from fellow WEC drivers who are running dual campaigns in series like Super GT and IMSA who now face clashes of their own due to the date...
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