"I'm immensely excited that I'll be racing in this year's Indy 500, with McLaren, Honda and Andretti Autosport," said Alonso, in an interview with autosport.com. (Others, like Jackie Stewart and Villeneuve, ran Indy before winning their F1 titles.) Mansell, of course, was reigning world champion when he arrived in 1992 to race Indy car in what was then CART. He’s frequently said that he’s done F1 – two titles are nothing to sneeze at – and that before he retired he wanted to win Indy and Le Mans. The Indy 500 will get a big ratings boost this year – perhaps bigger than what was expected for the 100th anniversary running a year ago.

Source: thestar April 12, 2017 17:37 UTC