Motor racing: Alonso takes second Le Mans win and title with Toyota

LE MANS, France - Double Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso struck lucky with a second successive victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours race on Sunday with Toyota team mates Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi.

Toyota’s number seven TS050 hybrid, driven by Britain’s Mike Conway, Japan’s Kamui Kobayashi and Argentina’s Jose Maria Lopez, had a two-minute advantage before a puncture shattered their hopes with an hour to go. Alonso, 37, recognized fortune had played a big part in completing the unprecedented feat of winning Le Mans twice in one ‘super-season’, a one-off scheduled to readjust the calendar so it finishes with the endurance classic in future.

“Luck sometimes plays an important part in motorsport and today we feel extremely lucky and maybe we don’t deserve it but we take it,” added the former Ferrari and McLaren driver who left Formula One last year.The number eight crew had needed only a top-seven finish to be sure of the title.

Alonso, a two-time winner of the Monaco Grand Prix, is now leaving the series and hoping to become only the second driver after the late Briton Graham Hill to complete the so-called ‘Triple Crown of Motorsport’.

As you've still not corrected this two days later, I'll do it for you (I trust that Toyota_Hybrid and ToyotaPR won't mind...) . That McLaren wouldn't have survived 24 hours - it could barely last a two-hour Grand Prix

I knew Toyota was hybrid, but this is Renault engine

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alanbaldwinf1 you might want to inform your editors they’ve made a mistake 🤦🏼‍♂️

Layers upon layers of fact checkers

Disappointing Reuters literally could have taken less then 30 seconds to find the right car

Why are you showing his F1 car? Le Mans isn’t F1!!

This is the McLarenF1 Formula One car. He was driving the Toyota_Hybrid

Wrong car.

Totally lost your job

Thanks god you didn't post a bicycle

Think you're after this sort of photo, actually... 🙄

DannyYoyo98 bei reuters läufts 😂

You’re sacked.

F1 car racing at LeMans. That's sweet. 😂😂😂😂😂

aber nicht in diesem Auto

😅😅😅 Le Mans car

He wouldn’t have won a kart race with that car.

Not pictured: A Le Mans car

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