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Alonso begins Daytona preparations

Fernando Alonso has successfully completed his first test ahead of his debut at the Rolex 24 At Daytona in January. The McLaren driver tested the Ligier at Motorland Aragon in Spain alongside his team mate for Daytona, Phil Hanson. Also present and testing for 2018 was Filipe Albuquerque, who was on hand to answer the Spaniard's questions, ahead of his first run in an LMP2 car. Alonso arrived at Aragon directly from his LMP1 test in Bahrain on Monday evening and completed a seat fitting before his first laps in the Ligier JS P217 this morning. Over the course of the test, he covered 483km (98 laps), focussing first on getting familiar with the car. He quickly got up to speed and began to...
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