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Alonso: Why I’m Racing in the Indy 500
F1 News Around the World: Formula 1 double world champion Fernando Alonso's Indianapolis 500 debut continues, the Spaniard has made it clear that he's racing at the Brickyard because he is a 'racer.' “The first car I ever raced in wasn’t built for me. It was for my sister”, Alonso explains via the Players' Tribune. “My dad wanted her to drive go-karts, like he used to. So, in our garage, he built her one — from scratch. The only problem was, she was an eight-year-old girl who had no interest in spending her weekends racing around the go-kart circuits of northern Spain.” “So he put three-year-old me in there. The kart was a little big at first. I couldn’t quite reach the...
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