Fernando Alonso has moved one step closing to completing motor racing’s Triple Crown by helping to secure victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours with Toyota.
Toyota had never won the sportscar race despite many years of trying. Alonso’s teammates are Sebastian Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima.
The win is hugely significant: for Alonso, it means he now just needs a victory at the Indy 500 to become the second driver in history to win that race, the Monaco Grand Prix and Le Mans.
Alonso, who will return to McLaren duty immediately at next weekend’s French Grand Prix, becomes the second active F1 competitor to win the event in the past four years — Nico Hulkenberg won it with Porsche in 2015 while contesting that year’s F1 season with Force India.
