Fernando Alonso 'fresh and motivated' despite Toyota disqualification
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 @ 2:49 PM
OUTGOING Formula 1 great Fernando Alonso has spoken publicly for the first time since he and his Toyota team-mates won the Silverstone 6-Hour race and then being disqualified within hours.
The twice-world champion, who announced this week that he would be retiring rom Formula 1 at the end of the current season, says he is 'fresh and motivated' to continue and is looking forward to this Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.
After winning the Spa 6-Hour and Le Mans 24-Hour, team Toyota's No 8 car – driven by Alonso, France's Sebastien Buemi and Japan's Kazuki Nakajima – were already in the lead in the world championship standings and would have made it a hat-trick with Silverstone, having won all three WEC races to date.
And Toyota's No 7 car, driven by José María López, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway, came second.
But today (Monday) brought a bitter blow for all six drivers when it was announced that both Toyotas had been disqualified.
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