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Alonso feels ready to ‘start the season next week'

At 40 years old, Fernando Alonso believes his age is an advantage in F1 – and would be ready to start another season “next week”. The Spaniard becomes the sport’s elder statesman for the 2022 campaign following the retirement of Kimi Raikkonen, so will be the only driver in the field to have reached the fifth decade of his life. But there is nothing about Alonso that marks him out as an old man, be it physically, mentally or in his driving, and while he is keen to map out his off-season to the best effect he insists he could have kept racing all the way through the winter if required. Indeed, after taking part in the Pirelli tyre test in Abu Dhabi, he is not about to hang up his...
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