La prensa americana, rendida ante Alonso: "Su leyenda crece"

Qué exagerados los yanquis jajajaja..... O no? Eah seguid metiendo votos negativos. Buen provecho!!!!

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Fernando Alonso silences critics with spectacular Indianapolis 500 run
INDIANAPOLIS – Fernando Alonso knew it would create some waves, this leap into the unknown, searching for instant mastery of Indianapolis’ curved mysteries

He didn’t care much, didn’t allow himself to fluster for a moment at the pit lane whispers that it was a fool’s errand, a heavy horsepower ego trip, an unwelcome excursion that would amount to nothing.
Or so they thought.
He knew that for each of those intrigued by his self-designed loan from Formula One to IndyCar for a one-time shot at 500 glory there were be several others wishing him to falter and crumble and become another victim of the Brickyard’s cruel clutches.
On Sunday, the Spanish driving master, one of F1’s modern greats and even better than his two world championships suggest, held a proverbial finger to his lips as he went on a mission of discovery.

RACER

His race ended like so many others have the past couple years – prematurely with smoke trailing from his broken Honda engine. But there was nothing ordinary or routine about what Fernando Alonso did this month at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The two-time Formula 1 champion's initial run at the Indianapolis 500 was smooth, fast, impressive and wildly popular as he confirmed that he's not only one of the greatest drivers of the past several decades but he's also one of savviest.
He stepped out of his comfort zone and into the mayhem of oval-track racing at 220 mph with amazing aplomb.
"I know that I can be as quick as anyone in an F1 car but I didn't know if I could be as quick as anyone in an Indy car," said Alonso after starting fifth, leading 27 laps and handling traffic like a 10-year veteran before blowing up with 21 laps left while running sixth. "I came here basically to prove and challenge myself and the last two weeks have been a great experience."
Despite many of his fellow F1 drivers questioning his sanity for passing up Monaco to try Indy, Alonso welcomed a change of scenery. It's been four years since he won an F1 race because (Ferrari in 2014) and McLaren-Honda have given him dogs to drive. So from the first day he turned a wheel at IMS (May 3) to his splendid qualifying run to mixing it up for the better part of three hours on Sunday, he was back in his competitive element.

"It was nice to have this competitive feeling, even leading the Indy 500," said the 35-year-old Spaniard, who made several nifty passes during the afternoon. "I was passing and watching the tower and saw 29 on the top of it. I was thinking at that moment if Zak (Brown, McLaren boss) or someone from the team was taking a picture, because I wanted to take that picture home."
After his McLaren-Andretti Honda coasted to a stop, Alonso got out and walked back to his pits amid a massive roar from the grandstands. It was cool to hear because the U.S. fans obviously got it and understood they'd just witnessed a command performance from a true racer.
"I want to thank IndyCar, Michael (Andretti), my teammates and Zak for this incredible experience," he said. "And thanks to Indianapolis and to the fans – I felt at home. I'm not American but I really felt proud to race here."
An Indy rookie in title only, Fernando is a free agent at the end of 2017 and he's said on a couple of occasions that he is an F1 driver who also wants to win Le Mans and Indianapolis but he'll be exploring his options for 2018 and beyond. Does he envision a return trip to IMS?
"If I come back here at least I know how everything is and it will not be the first time I do restarts, pit stops and all these kinds of things," he replied. "So it will be easier, let's say, adaptation. Let's see what happens in the following years.
"But I need to keep pursuing this challenge, because winning the Indy 500 is not completed

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From a story that started six weeks ago when he shocked the racing world by announcing his entry to the 101st Indianapolis 500, Fernando Alonso’s dream of winning the Greatest Spectacle in Racing came to an all-too-familiar end when he was sidelined by an engine failure late on.

Two-time Formula 1 champion Alonso had been a force at the front of the pack throughout the first half of the race and even looked capable of taking a famous victory at the Brickyard, only for his engine to give up on the main straight and his hopes to go up in smoke.

Given his Indy 500 entry was put into motion as a way to ease his gripes with McLaren’s F1 struggles with ailing engine partner Honda, for it to end in such fashion weighs heavy with irony and, for Alonso, disappointment.

Thrown into a rolling IndyCar race start for the first, Alonso made a slow getaway on the opening lap to lose four positions and sit ninth, only to then pick his way back through the order with some fine overtakes on the likes of Will Power and JR Hildebrand.

A swift first pit stop of 8.2 seconds from the McLaren-Honda-Andretti crew lifted Alonso to third after the opening cycle, with the Spaniard then putting down the hammer to take the lead of the race from Alexander Rossi on Lap 37.

Alonso and Rossi spent the next 15 laps drafting, swapping the lead back and forth in a bid to save fuel, with the McLaren man sitting as race leader when the red flag was thrown for the crash between Scott Dixon and Jay Howard on Lap 52.

Alonso shuffled back to fourth before the next caution was shown following Conor Daly’s crash, and the Spaniard continued to sit in the top five despite being frustrated by former F1 colleague Max Chilton’s bold defense at one point.

Running second behind Andretti teammates Ryan Hunter-Reay and Rossi, Alonso was able to battle his way back through to the lead on the restart with 70 laps to go following Buddy Lazier’s shunt.

Honda’s engine concerns were justified when smoke began to seep from the rear of Hunter-Reay’s car, sparking another caution on Lap 138. While it did rule out one of Alonso’s win rivals, it was one less bullet in the gun for Andretti at the front.

Alonso made his penultimate stop under the caution, dropping him to ninth behind the drivers that opted to stay out. Just a single lap followed when Ed Carpenter’s front wing broke, leaving debris on track, but there was enough time for Alonso to fall back to 12th ahead of the sixth caution.

The loss of position also cost Alonso his net advantage over the field. Now on the same strategy as Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan and Oriol Servia – all of whom ran ahead – Alonso had ground to make up heading towards the final round of pit stops.

Alonso’s final visit to pit road was sparked by another caution called for a Honda engine failure, this time leaving Charlie Kimball on the sidelines. The majority of the pack came in, leaving the field with a straight sprint to the flag. Sat ninth for the restart, Alonso had to mount a charge with 30 laps to go on the restart.

Having passed James Davison early on the restart, Alonso picked up another spot with a brave move around the outside of Kanaan with 24 laps to go, giving him P7.

As Alonso continued to push, he became the third Honda driver to suffer an engine failure as he came towards the start/finish with 21 laps remaining, his car grinding to a halt.

“I felt the noise, the engine, the friction, I backed off and saw the smoke. It’s a shame. We deserved to at least finish today,” Alonso told ESPN.

“The whole day was a very nice experience from the very beginning, from the presentation, and I think the performance was good.

“We led the race for a couple of laps. We led at the red flag. It’s been a very nice surprise to come here with these names, the best of oval racing, and be able to be competitive.

“This one stings. But I feel competitive. If I come back, I come back with something I know, and it would be easier the second time. It’s been a really good time.

“Thanks to INDYCAR, Indianapolis and the fans for one of the best experiences of my career.”

INDY STAR

Gregg Doyel | [email protected]

INDIANAPOLIS – For two weeks, we followed him with cameras and microphones. If Fernando Alonso said something, we heard it. If he did something, we saw it. He couldn’t hide from us. We wouldn’t let him.

But somehow, he hid this.

McLaren-Honda-Andretti IndyCar driver Fernando Alonso (29) before the start of the Indy 500 at IMS, ...more
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Alonso was talking with the media after the 2017 Indianapolis 500, going over his terribly misleading 24th place finish, when he announced there was one more thing he needed to do, one more thing he wanted to say.
Alonso reached beneath the table and pulled out a surprise: a small blue carton of milk. The Indy 500 champion drinks the milk — out on the track, shocking winner Takuma Sato already had chugged from a container of milk before dumping the rest on his head — but not normally the guy in 24th place. But then, nothing about Fernando Alonso is normal. And so he pulled out a half pint of 2-percent milk while the room broke into laughter.

That isn’t why Alonso is a star. He’s a star because he’s a damn good race car driver, a two-time Formula One champion who made his oval debut on Sunday and grabbed the lead on four different occasions, leading for 27 total laps before his engine blew on Lap 180.
But that is why he’s so popular. They are two different things, talent and personality, and Alonso has a world-class helping of both. Earlier in the week feisty American driver Graham Rahal was spitting fire about Alonso, saying that he and other drivers in the paddock didn’t want the outsider from Formula One to win, but Rahal couldn’t help himself. He softened.
“I hope he comes back,” Rahal was telling me.
People seem to like the guy, I said.
“For sure,” Rahal said.
the biggest somebody in U.S. racing, before he won the 2016 Indy 500, Rossi was a small little nobody in Formula One. He couldn’t get a full-time ride on that circuit, just some starts here and there. His first start came at the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix. Before the race, one driver — one — approached the 23-year-old Rossi and told him to enjoy the experience.
Fernando Alonso did that.
Look, this is not a children’s story. It’s wonderful that Fernando Alonso is so charming as a man — it really is — but what mattered most Sunday was his charisma behind the wheel. And my word, does he have charisma behind the wheel. With some luck he would have won the 101st Indy 500, but Alonso was driving one of the lemon engines Honda foisted on its drivers this month. Nine Honda engines blew here at IMS this May, including those on two potential winners Sunday: Ryan Hunter-Reay and Fernando Alonso.

Alonso’s engine blew on Lap 180, his engine belching gray smoke as he coasted to a stop. But before that whimpering finish, Alonso was roaring his way around the track, racing his car like another famous Spaniard sportsman, Seve Ballesteros, once played golf. Ballesteros was creative and fearless, but let’s be honest: Ballesteros was hitting a golf ball.
went after Hildebrand too, engaging him in a game of chicken before deciding to back off.
This was Alonso getting comfortable, getting bold. When the race began his unfamiliarity with IndyCar was apparent, including this remarkable development: Alonso qualified fifth but entered the first turn in sixth, being overtaken immediately by Hildebrand. By Lap 2, Alonso was in ninth, because he didn’t know what he was doing.

Early in the race Alonso lost position on almost every restart, but the racing savant figured it out. After running most of the day in the top five, he dropped back a few places entering the final 40 laps. But that was intentional.
“I was taking care a bit of the front tires,” he said, “because I knew the race would be decided in the last six or seven laps.”
the drivers, the same ones who didn’t want him to win.
After it was over Alonso said: “Thanks to Indianapolis. Thanks to the fans. I’m not an American, but I felt really proud to race here.” He also told us that the first time he passed the tower “and saw the 29 on top of it, I was (hoping) someone from the team was taking a picture, because I want that picture at home.’”

Then he was sipping his milk, speaking in delightful broken English — I didn't won, but I will drink a little bit of milk — and walking off the podium and through a door and directly into Helio Castroneves’ physical space. Castroneves, who finished second after being unable to pass Sato on the 198th lap, was waiting solemnly for his news conference. The three-time winner broke into a smile when he saw Alonso coming, patting Alonso on the chest and saying a single word:
Bueno.
Then Alonso was gone, climbing into a golf cart and being driven back to the garage. No longer in his fire suit, wearing a baseball cap and large sunglasses, Alonso rode anonymously through the crowd. An hour earlier, he was trending worldwide on Twitter. Now he was just another guy on an IMS golf cart, unrecognized as he rode through the crowd until a single fan walking past did a double-take, then yelled something loud enough for everyone in Alonso’s golf cart to hear:
“Come back soon, Fernando!”
Yes please. There will be more milk next year, Fernando. A carton with your name on it.

ESPN

The legend of Fernando Alonso continues to grow -- in more ways than one.

After his rookie Indy 500, the two-time world champion leaves with the U.S. with a bolstered fanbase west of the Atlantic and an even stronger reputation than he had before announcing his participation at the Brickyard. From the first moment he stepped in the orange No.29 car Alonso looked at home, running strongly in practice and qualifying fifth. But it was in the race he was supposed to struggle, with pit-stops and restarts apparently set to test the McLaren driver's lack of experience when it mattered.

As it turned out, Alonso looked every part the oval racer. There were fleeting moments he drove like a rookie, losing four positions in the opening two laps and being caught out during one of the restarts later in the race, but for over 150 laps of the race Alonso was a contender for the Borg-Warner trophy. We shouldn't have expected any less from a man chasing the Triple Crown, an achievement he thinks will solidify a reputation as the most "complete" driver of the modern era, a title many have already ascribed to him.

Alonsomania was a very real thing for the two weeks of build-up and it was not hype for the sake of hype. Rivals marvelled at how quickly he'd got up to speed, with several observers in the Indianapolis paddock commenting that he looked more at ease after seven days than some of his rivals did on their third or fourth visits to the Brickyard. A win would have elevated his reputation into the stratosphere.

Honda's engine failure prematurely stopped the story of the year as it neared its final act, leaving us and Alonso to wonder what might have been in those final 20 laps -- he had been right behind eventual winner Takuma Sato (and on a near-identical strategy) when the smoke started pouring from his engine.
It's a shame," Alonso told ESPN's Dr Larry Punch after the race. "I think I deserved to finish the race, at least. Who knows where we could have finished?"

That it was a Honda engine failure that ended his bid was a painful irony not lost on anyone with any understanding of what led to Alonso's participation in the first place. It is important to differentiate between Honda's F1 and IndyCar programmes -- they are fundamentally different projects and engines -- but the failings of the Japanese manufacturer will forever be associated with the later years of Alonso's career unless it can do the unthinkable and deliver him a championship-winning F1 car before he retires (just convincing him to stay in 2018 seems difficult enough).

Honda ended the race with one perfect story, a Japanese driver winning in one of its own cars, but the stature and fame of Alonso means its association with his repeated frustrations will resonate just as much as Sato's victory in the motorsport world and beyond. What was supposed to be a positive story for McLaren and Honda's relationship finished on a sour note, one which Formula One boss Zak Brown seemed genuinely miffed by in the immediate aftermath of the race.

"Who knows where we could have finished?" is an apt question for it all to end on for Alonso. The same question has been asked at various points through his post-2007 career, years littered with near-misses the what-might-have-been tales. As good a PR victory as this was for Alonso -- a man who endeared himself to U.S. fans with his sharp wit, happy-go-lucky charm and genuine respect and excitement for the most famous race in the world -- he still left empty-handed.
He had downplayed expectations from the beginning and will have the chance to tackle the Indy 500 again one day but having a genuine shot of winning that race, something Alonso had in those closing stages, is a rare thing whoever the driver. His career remains unfulfilled and his potential for multiple success is yet to be realised

Exacto ese es el problema que honda ni va, ni parece que vaya a ir a corto plazo. Aunq tb soy de los q piensa q cn la mala suerte que tiene Alo escogiendo equipo, capaz de irse y el año q viene McLaren tener coche ganador. Yo si fuera Alo, solo me moveria de McLaren xa irme a Mercedes.

Ed Jones debe ser un genio, novato y finaliza 3ero, piloto leyenda, Como Rossi, novato ganador 2016. Si nos ponemos así, me parece perfecto, entonces todos los pilotos que alguna vez han ganado algo son leyenda, no lo veo mal, xo entonces hay miles de leyendas, pensaba que esa u otras palabras parecidas se utulizaban para describir hechos únicos o muy poco frecuentes. Tenemos + leyendas, Montoya , ganador Monaco f1 y 500 millas, Villineuve, ganador 500 millas y mundial f1, el mismo Sato, ganador ayer, otra leyenda... luego hablas de los mejores de la historia, Senna, Schumi y Fangio, y entiendes la realidad de la palabra leyenda. Ayer del tel top 4 tenemos Sato y Chilton, dos pilotos del completo montón en f1 y un novato , Ed Jones, el nivel de la indy es realmente lamentable, van ex f1 del montón por ahí y se pasean o luchan por ganar siendo novatos...

Quien sabe, como seguidor de McLaren y de Alonso me gustaría que siguiera en el equipo, aunque si se larga ¿quien podría culparle?, yo la verdad es que soy bastante pesimista acerca de que Honda vaya a ponerse al día a corto plazo.

La única opción que tiene Alonso de ganar algo es fichando por Meecedes. Con Hamilton es imposible pero ojo a esto. Si Vetel acaba ganando el mundial, Hamilton llevara 2 años seguidos con un coche ganador sin ganar, cosa q le deja en muy mal lugar. Y Alonso libre de contratos. No lo veo ninguna locura q Hamilton se vaya x malos resultados y ficharan a Alonso.

Al menos no te ha llamado talibán ortográfico. Supongo que porque no sabría escribirlo. (es broma ehh) xD

no te preocupes , es mi problema no el tullo , a mi me parece mas tu mensage otro tipo de mensaje que de intentar alludar . asi que ya saves si quieres llees si no a otra cosa que nadie te obliga a leerme .

No, no soy profesor, pero no soy analfabeto, solo intento ayudarte, una herramienta que cubra ese problema, mas que nada porque sino al final el mensaje se diluye...

tu que eres profesor de colegio ? yo analfabeto reconocido , si quieres me puedes aceptar y entender como soy , si no no me leas . es facil .

muchas gracias , yo no lo pude ver , me tocaba levantar el pais.

"e", "a", "epoca", "alla", "estubieron", "vielas", "salian", "tambien", "asta", "consegir", "competitibo","despues", "wclaren", "asi", "williamas" Las tildes las pasamos, pero para todo lo demás....en fin, chrome tiene corrector ortográfico...

Para el que se perdió el programa de ayer de Calleja con Alonso de protagonista https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6CVHcoo7aS9eEYyWHZSM2l1MDQ/view?usp=s…

wclaren jojojojoj mclaren

como e dicho en otra noticia , definitivamente mi fe en Honda a terminado . que se dediquen a las motos . y se que durante su epoca dorada alla por los 80 estubieron varias temporadas que sus vielas salian por los escapes de los motores una carrera si y otra tambien asta consegir un motor competitibo y despues los monto wclaren para triunfar asi como los williamas etc , pero ahora mismo no tengo ninguna fe en ellos. sayonara

En cuanto gane algo, peta internet... Será en 2018??