The rumors of the McLaren marque returning full-time to the IndyCar Series are gathering pace as officials from the team attended last weekend’s Indianapolis Grand Prix. McLaren-mounted drivers took three Indianapolis 500 wins (Mark Donohue in 1972, Johnny Rutherford in ’74 and ’76) and two championships (Roger McCluskey in ’73, Tom Sneva in ’77), and had amassed 28 wins in 10 years by the time it pulled out of Indy car racing at the end of 1979. Its most recent involvement was at last year’s Indy 500, in which it backed a sixth Andretti Autosport-Honda driven by two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard, who played a starring role throughout the 2017 Month of...
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