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McLaren open to Le Mans foray and Alonso is invited

With the embarrassment of failure at this year's running of the Indianapolis 500 still fresh, McLaren boss Zak Brown revealed he is considering a foray to Le Mans as early as 2021 and has left a door open for Fernando Alonso to be part of the project. Speaking to MN (Spain) about a possible return for the legendary 24-Hour race, Brown said, 'It would be risky for our debut to be at Le Mans 2021, so we would have to be ready one or two races before that so we need to be ready to compete in April or May 2021, depends on how fast  we can make a decision.' The FIA and ACO trumpeted a hypercar based series for 2020 and beyond, releasing an overview of the series. But little has happened since...
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