As much as he smiles, says and does all the right things on the surface, below it Fernando Alonso is clearly a bitter man as he heads to his final Formula 1 race – the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – claiming that the sport at the highest level is not up to scratch. Alonso's half-decade of woe is well documented. In a nutshell, with none of the big three teams interested in his services and McLaren at the worst point in their history with little hope of short-term recovery, the Spaniard is taking his considerable talents elsewhere. He told Speedweek ahead of the Shanghai 6-Hour weekend, “What happens now is not the Formula 1 that inspired me to be a race driver. I quit Formula...
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