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Alonso: Indy 500 deal wouldn't be possible under Dennis
Fernando Alonso reckons a deal for him to skip the Monaco Grand Prix and race at the Indianapolis 500 would not have been possible if Ron Dennis had still been in charge at McLaren. The Spaniard announced his shock decision ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix with McLaren having put together a package that will allow its driver to compete in the blue-riband IndyCar event. With McLaren’s new executive director Zak Brown more open to a different path for this team’s future, Alonso said that he doubted former chairman Dennis would have let him do it. “I guess not,” Alonso said when asked if Dennis would have approved the plan. “Zak is a man that has a bigger vision than other team...
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