Alonso Backs Mclaren To Chase Down Red Bull
McLaren finished ninth in last season’s constructors’ standings, with Red Bull up in third, but the British team have switched to a Renault engine for 2018. And Alonso - twice a world champion as a Renault driver - is optimistic for the year to come, having finished fifth at the Australian Grand Prix between Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen. “It is the first race with this [McLaren-Renault] combination, so there is a lot more to come and hopefully, from Bahrain, we will see another step forward,” Alonso told Sky Sports....