Alonso-Latifi: Indycar connection F1 Multi-million dollar investor wants him in the US

In the United States, they are looking forward to the arrival of Fernando Alonso to the Indycar championship, something that should be announced during this month after the successful test on February 5 in Barber, Alabama.

The organiser is doing everything and more, even speculating that he has money on the table for Fernando to be there, since he is a guaranteed big draw for the public and a global icon that the championship doesn't have right now.

You only need to remember the millions of spectators who saw Fernando's first test in 2017, watching via YouTube for several hours.

He left everyone with their mouths open.

Thus, all the factors are aligned so that Alonso will make a triumphant return into the United States, where his brand Kimoa will make the qualitative leap that he lacks for an international expansion.

It's a market not only interesting for Fernando, since everything seems to indicate that with the two-time champion, Nicholas Latifi, a Canadian driver currently in F2, will also arrive.

(Nicholas Latifi, DAMS, F2 )

Latifi is the son of Michael Latifi who invested 225 million euros this year in McLaren (to cover the gap left by Honda).

For Latifi, an Iranian who settled in Canada and obtained refugee status when he was a student, businesses are on the sidelines when compared to his son's athletic career.

The expansion of his agri-food group, Sofina Foods, has an important market in the United States, and this former employee of McDonalds can find in Alonso the ideal ally to popularise his brand.

Fernando would have the ideal companion with a young teammate, who would find in Alonso the perfect teacher.

The Asturian could write new pages to his story.

A LOGICAL SPONSOR

McLaren lacks sponsors and finding a brand like Sofina in the hands of Latifi for his American project would be the squaring of the circle.

A hypothetical arrival of McDonalds to McLaren cars in Indy would only be a prelude to their landing in F1 as well.

The beginning of the resurgence of the brand, now at its lowest point, should be in line with the new sponsors.

All the championships want Alonso and the sponsors too.

F1 has now created something inaccessible for sponsors.

Those in Indy focus on their American market, such as Latifi with Sofina, so a turn towards America is not far fetched.

And if Alonso follows suit, success is guaranteed at all levels.