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Fernando Alonso has admitted that he will consider exiting Formula One in it's current direction.
Fuel saving and fragile tyres mean that drivers can no longer drive a car on the limit, much to the frustration of many drivers including Alonso who made his début in 2001 and drove through F1's fastest era.
"These days, Formula One is in a time of highs and lows, for several things the series' direction isn't clear," he told Autosprint. "I'm not at all happy for some things that are happening: we can never drive the cars to their real limit; we can never attack as much as we would like because the tyres don't allow you to."
"If I see F1 carries on going in a different direction compared to what I knew and loved in the recent past, at that point I could consider other alternatives and leave F1," he admitted.
Speaking of those "other alternatives", Alonso singled out Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500 as possible destinations.
"Le Mans would be the option closest to my driving style, and to what I've always done," he said. "The Indy 500 is a fascinating, radical change because you must learn a completely different driving style and way of thinking."
"Nevertheless, I'd be open and ready to learn it because when you have been F1 world champion there are only two other races that are equivalent prestige-wise: the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500," he continued. "But in any case it would be an idea, a plan that would be really long term in order to be turned to reality."
Not what he is saying, this article is click bait bulls**t. As to his comments, he would be singing F1's praises had he been the one winning for the last two years ;) He isn't exactly the most objective person to take views from. If this opinion came from someone else it would pretty much mirror what most fans also think of the sport in its current state so for that Alonso gets some brownie points but the genuineness of his statements are a huge question mark.
It most definitely is click bait BS
Makes me laugh that the story 3 posts before this one is headlined "Fernando Alonso still aiming for 2017 title"
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this isn't clickbait at all...?