ABOVE: Johnny Rutherford's McLaren M24B in 1978.The details are a little bit hazy, but Fernando Alonso is expected to drive a vintage McLaren Indy car during one of the retro Indy 500 demonstration session before climbing into the cockpit of his Andretti-McLaren Honda on Sunday. It's believed the McLaren Formula 1 driver, who will make his Indy 500 debut from fifth on the grid, will climb into a 1977-'79 McLaren M24 chassis powered by a turbocharged Cosworth DFX V8 engine in either the Saturday vintage session or the Sunday pre-race session planned by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 1977 M24 and the M24B versions that followed took everything McLaren learned from its successful...
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