As Formula 1 heads to Monaco, attention turns again to Fernando Alonso's quest for motorsport's Triple Crown. The Spaniard has Monaco and Le Mans on his record and needs only the Indianapolis 500 to join Graham Hill in one of sport's most exclusive clubs.
The Monaco Grand Prix never arrives without dragging one particular ambition back into the light: Fernando Alonso and motorsport's Triple Crown. Winning Monaco, the Indianapolis 500 and the Le Mans 24 Hours is a feat only a single driver has ever achieved, and the Spaniard remains the most realistic active candidate to become the second name on that list.
Two of the three boxes are already ticked, and emphatically so. Alonso won the Monaco Grand Prix in 2006 and again in 2007, conquering the very streets Formula 1 visits this weekend during his title-winning peak. Years later he switched disciplines and triumphed at Le Mans, taking the 24-hour classic in both 2018 and 2019. Two crowns, two completely different worlds of racing, more than a decade apart.
The outstanding leg is the Indianapolis 500, and it has been the hardest to crack. Alonso's forays to the Brickyard have delivered drama without reward: a strong run wrecked by engine failure, a painful failure to qualify on a later attempt, and a quiet finish that never threatened the leaders. The 500 is notorious for humbling the very best, and it has so far refused Alonso the prize he wants most.
The calendar makes the symbolism unmistakable. Monaco and Indianapolis have long shared the same late-May slot, two races at opposite poles of the sport, one a test of precision between the barriers, the other a test of nerve at colossal speed. Add Le Mans and its day-long war of attrition, and the Triple Crown becomes a statement of complete versatility. Graham Hill alone has managed it.
In the paddock, Alonso is still seen as the driver most capable of joining that company, a racer whose adaptability and hunger have endured deep into his career. His Formula 1 duties and a midfield car keep him rooted in the present, but the pull of Indianapolis has never fully faded.
The chance may or may not come again; time is not on the side of a driver of his experience. Yet as the field snakes through Monte Carlo once more, the thought is impossible to escape. Fernando Alonso is two-thirds of the way to one of sport's rarest achievements, and the final chapter is still unwritten, somewhere on the banking at Indianapolis.
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