Zak Brown with Fernando Alonso at Indianapolis in 2019 Zak Brown has confessed to Speedcafe.com that he believes he is the reason Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. The Spaniard attempted to make his second appearance at the American event in what proved to be a disastrous project that saw him bumped from the race in the Last Row Shootout. It came as a humiliating blow after Alonso put in a promising rookie drive in 2017, leading for a time before a late engine failure took him out of the race and left him 24th in the classification. However, having worked with Andretti Autosport for the 2017 Indy attempt, in 2019 McLaren operated its own project. According to...
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