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Alonso can do full WEC season after Fuji date change

McLaren driver Fernando Alonso can compete for Toyota in every round of the forthcoming World Endurance Championship this season after organisers altered the date of the Japanese event to avoid a United States Grand Prix clash. The FIA announced at a presentation in Paris on Friday that the Six Hours of Fuji had been brought forward to 14 October thus ensuring that the Spaniard can feature for Toyota at the manufacturer’s home track. Alonso wants to win the Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race in France as part of the “triple crown of motorsport” achieved only by the late Briton Graham Hill. Hill, like Alonso a two-times Formula One world champion, won Le Mans, the Monaco Grand Prix and...
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