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Ex-IndyCar champion De Ferran will mentor Alonso
McLaren have drafted in former IndyCar champion Gil de Ferran as a mentor for Fernando Alonso as the Spaniard bids to win the Indianapolis 500 this year. Alonso said De Ferran, winner of the Indy 500 in 2003 and a two-time IndyCar champion, would "coach" him. The two-time Formula 1 champion said: "I'm sure it will be very useful for all these new things I need to learn." De Ferran told BBC Sport: "I will try to mentor him through his introduction to the speedway and its nuances." Indianapolis is a very different challenge from an F1 grand prix. The race is 200 laps of a 2.5-mile 'superspeedway' with four left turns and an average lap speed of about 230mph....
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