McLaren have launched their IndyCar challenger for the 2020 season as they prepare for a full-time return to the series as Arrow McLaren SP. So it is not out of the question, especially as he'll have more experience, that if he wanted to do the Indy 500 in 2021 and his contract allowed… you could have a situation where someone qualifies the car for him.“And if [Alonso] wanted to compete at the Indy 500 in ’21, we'd have to see where we were at as a team, but certainly that wouldn't be something that I would be opposed to. Should Alonso not win in 2020, then he will be under contract with Renault in F1 for the following two years. But when COVID-19 hit, Zak made a decision not to furlough those six or seven people working specifically on our program over there,” Schmidt told IndyStar. 66 livery for Fernando Alonso's return to the 2020 Indy 500. “There were a variety of issues that we should have had enough time to be prepared for, and when we didn’t respond urgently enough and you don’t solve those and you continue to have them, and your car crashes…”Needless to say, Alonso proved too slow in the Last Row Shootout and was bumped by budget-team Juncos still searching for sponsorship to fill their pristine white chassis entirely devoid of sponsorship logos.Three months later, McLaren had latched onto what was formerly Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and helped start a sea change in the organization. From our point of view, next year, the races don't conflict and the way Indy 500 is run, the car qualifies, not the driver. The car will be powered by Chevrolet engines -- Honda refused to continue with Schmidt Peterson once it entered its collaboration with McLaren, owing to the acrimonious end to its F1 partnership at the end of 2017.McLaren has made two forays into North American open-wheel racing in recent years. At the end of the day, what we’ve provided is an additive to what was Arrow SP before it became Arrow McLaren SP, which is exciting.”Added de Ferran: “I’ve got to be careful what I say. To mark its return to IndyCar, the team's famous papaya orange -- which it carries on it Formula One cars -- has been merged with the Schmidt Peterson scheme of previous years.Former Red Bull F1 prospect Patricio O'Ward and American driver Oliver Askew will contest the season for Arrow McLaren, replacing former Sauber F1 driver Marcus Ericsson and James Hinchcliffe. “And they have a variety of tools and additional people they can pull on. "It's very hard-working groups coming together to form something even bigger," said O'Ward.Askew, meanwhile, said that "we have the best-looking cars on the grid".The 2020 season begins on March 15 with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, with every qualifying session and race live on Sky Sports F1.McLaren are launching their F1 car next week, on February 13, as the team look to build on their impressive fourth from last season.Venkatesham 'impatient' to be competing for top trophiesMcLaren reveal new IndyCar challenger for 2020 season return

“But I’m here and ready to enjoy the event and give my best help to the team as much as I can, and we’ll see in the future what are the possibilities.”Over the next two weeks, a team that has overwhelmingly exceeded its leaders’ expectations through six 2020 IndyCar races will try to do what seemed impossible 15 months ago: Take a driver whose team didn’t manage to have his steering wheel on-time for his first test in 2019 and deliver him to Roger Penske’s refurbished Victory Lane.“The biggest lesson we learned is don’t do what we did last year,” Brown said. McLaren CEO Zak Brown says Fernando Alonso’s Indianapolis 500 chances – and those of the whole Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet team –have improved hugely in 2020… The teams announced the partnership last August, coming weeks later with the official team name and branding, but at that point, as they finalized their drivers and new stateside engineering genius Craig Hampson, both sides were already nearing the starts of their respective 2020 seasons – blissfully unaware of what it had in store.“There wasn’t going to be a way to really activate all that until after the (2020) season was over. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown recently had left open the possibility of Alonso returning in the 2021 Indy ... 2020 4:30 pm Indy 500 will have no fans in … "I'm emotional," said McLaren sporting director Gil de Ferran. To date, Alonso has won Monaco in 2006 and 2007 and Le Mans in 2018 and 2019, But Alonso’s dogged pursuit of a full-time racing career at 39 years old, as he returns to Formula 1 in 2021 with Renault, has put a 12-day timer on Arrow McLaren's hopes to, in some way, rebound from the disappointment the McLaren arm suffered a year ago, while utilizing Alonso’s skills as one of the best one-off drivers the Greatest Spectacle in Racing has ever seen.During a media Zoom call Tuesday, Alonso confirmed that, due to his F1 obligations – both in time and partnership – returning to IMS in 2021 and 2022 in an Indy car would be “impossible”.“That will not work. We’ve been strong on road courses, strong on ovals. For the 2020 season McLaren Formula 1 drivers and cars will benefit from Renault power. You’ve got to get it pretty wrong for a team like McLaren and a driver like Fernando Alonso to not make the show.“And as racers, you want to come back with your guys that, sometimes, you win with, and sometimes you crash with.”Brown’s first step this offseason to put déjà vu at bay was to understand he didn’t have to go it alone. McLaren boss Brown owns up to "stupid" Indy mistakes; Hampson joins Arrow McLaren SP ; However, joining forces with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for 2020 has fulfilled McLaren CEO Zak Brown’s vow made last April, when he said that the marque’s full-time return to Indy car racing was “a matter of when, rather than if.”

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