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Alonso says he will quit F1 if season expands to 25 races IMAGE:  McLaren Honda's Fernando Alonso speaks with members of the media. Photograph: Charles Coates/Getty Image Double world champion Fernando Alonso said on Thursday he would not stick around in Formula One if the calendar grew to 25 races a year. The 35-year-old, whose future at under-performing McLaren is already uncertain beyond this season, was asked at the Canadian Grand Prix if it was true he had told Spanish television he ...

Alonso, who was champion in 2005 and 2006, last won a race at the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. The post Fernando Alonso could quit Formula 1 over failure to win at McLaren-Honda, proposed 25-race calendar appeared first on Firstpost .

Indianapolis 500 pole sitter Scott Dixon feels twice Formula One champion Fernando Alonso, who is making his IndyCar debut on Sunday, will be one of the main threats to his chances of winning The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

Fernando Alonso astonished fans and Formula One rivals on Saturday by qualifying seventh for his home Spanish Grand Prix in a McLaren that had been the slowest car on track a day earlier -- when actually moving.

The Briton will be stand-in driver for Fernando Alonso at Monaco GP   Former champion Jenson Button has done his time in Formula One but the Briton says returning as a Monaco Grand Prix stand-in for McLaren's Fernando Alonso will still be a big thrill. Spaniard Alonso will be trying to win the Indianapolis 500 in the United States on May 28, the double world champion opting to miss the Formula One season's showcase race on the same day. Button, the 2009 world champion and former Monaco ...

McLaren drivers Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne's grid penalties at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday have been extended to 40 and 30 respectively, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said.

Fernando Alonso rocked racing when he opted to skip the Monaco Grand Prix to run in the Indianapolis 500, but the two-time world champion's gamble was looking good as he prepared to swap one iconic venue for another on Sunday. The Spanish driver has been ...

Fernando Alonso, whose Indianapolis 500 hopes had been cruelly let down by a Honda engine failure last month, returned to the Formula One fold and was running in 10th place until, again, the Honda power unit packed up.

Formula One is feeling a fresh wave of optimism under its new owners, while Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso are the two most popular drivers, according to an extensive fan survey released on Friday. The Motorsport Network's Global Fan Survey, carried out ...