Fernando Alonso has announced he is to retire from Formula 1 at the end of the season.

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The McLaren driver will end a career that began with a debut for Minardi at the Australian Grand Prix of 2001.

Alonso, 37, who is competing in his 17th F1 season, won the 2005 and 2006 championships when racing for Renault.

 

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He'll be back


He'll go and help Indycar become 25% more popular overnight next year and once he has won both the Indy 500 and Indycar champion title he will be back to race a competitive McLaren in F1.

He will win the WEC series world title (LeMans cars) for Toyota this year too.

Winning Monaco/Le Mans/Indy 500 is the "Triple Crown of Motorsport" and has only been done once.

Alonso wants to go one better and win all three Plus become champion of all 3 series as well.


Exciting times for him and us!