🏁 ‘Most racing drivers spend a career chasing one great prize.’
Fernando Alonso appears intent on collecting three.
With two Formula One World Championships and victories at Monaco and Le Mans already secured.
The Spaniard remains one Indy 500 triumph away from joining perhaps the most exclusive club in motorsport.
And according to Jenson Button, he may be the man most likely to do it.
♔ Full Story
▪️Motor racing loves statistics. Some are impressive. Others are extraordinary.
▪️Then there is the Triple Crown.
▪️The challenge is deceptively simple: win the Monaco Grand Prix, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500. Only one driver in history has achieved it — Graham Hill.
▪️Writing in Jenson’s Journal for Aston Martin, 2009 World Champion Jenson Button believes Fernando Alonso is the most realistic candidate to change that.
▪️Alonso already has Monaco and Le Mans on his résumé.
▪️The missing piece is Indianapolis. He came agonisingly close, leading laps and showing the speed required before fate intervened.
♔ Why it matters:
▪️The Triple Crown remains motorsport’s rarest achievement.
▪️Alonso has already completed two of its three disciplines.
▪️Success would place him alongside Graham Hill in a club of exactly two.
‘The fascinating part is that Alonso no longer needs to prove his talent.’
▪️Two Formula One titles, endurance-racing glory and a reputation forged over two decades have already secured his place in history.
▪️Yet the Indy 500 still beckons.
▪️Because some records are worth chasing.
📍 ‘And some pieces of unfinished business refuse to stay unfinished.’
