Fernando Alonso knows for good that he does not enter into the future plans of the Alpine team. The Asturian has not been the least bit nervous about the news, quite the contrary. The two-time world champion knows that next season – regulation change through – he will have a silver bullet to fight for his third Formula 1 World Championship with regulations that should equalize things.
On his return to the Gran Circo, Fernando Alonso has shown that he has not lost an iota of his quality as a pilot and that if the victories have not come, it has been because the rules are what they are. The Asturian has a clear conscience of having shown that he is at the level of the best and if after 2022 he sees that Alpine does not have a competitive car, he will not force the slightest bit to renew with the French team.
The two-time champion of the 24 hours of Le Mans has another iconic event such as the Indianapolis 500 between his eyebrows and has on his agenda to return to the most mythical oval in the world to try in 2023 if the circumstances described above are not met. Alonso has a pending account with a race that he was on the verge of winning in 2017 when he had to abandon due to mechanical problems when he was going first.
Alonso, careers and new proposals
Fernando Alonso continues to maintain a great poster in the United States – he also won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2019 – as you will see this weekend at the Las Americas circuit in Austin. Various executives from the Chevrolet firm will attend the track and it is expected that they will meet with an Alonso who, if he competes again in Indianapolis, would do so with his engines after the Honda veto.
The 40-year-old driver has many proposals on the table after his Formula 1 career and one of them is trying to win the American championship title currently held by another Spaniard like Alex Palou. If committed to running the full championship of the 2023 season, Chevrolet would push to make a place for it in the firm’s two black-legged teams: Ed Carpenter Racing and Team Penske.
Fernando Alonso does not see this option with bad eyes because it would also allow him to reconcile with his other great objective, which is none other than to return to the Dakar rally. After his experience in 2020 with Toyota, the Asturian was completely delighted with the discipline, promising a return that would soon take place if the experiment with Alpine does not end up being successful. The contacts with the Japanese firm remain intact and the continuous evolution of the discipline is something that attracts him greatly after learning that Carlos Sainz is going to try to win it with an electric car.
The options for the rider are diverse in the future and the words of the CEO of Alpine, Laurent Rossi, have not taken a wrong turn. «We have a long-term project. The objective is to reach a level of competitiveness that will put us on the podium as many times as possible in 2024. It is a project with 100 races, four years. In each race we must progress, “he said. Fernando Alonso has a plan B.
