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Fernando Alonso's decision to race for Toyota in the World Endurance Championship superseason alongside his Formula 1 commitments for McLaren means he now faces a gruelling 25-race schedule in 2018.

Alonso's deal to contest the 2018/19 superseason - which will include a first assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours later this year - was announced on Tuesday morning.

The Spaniard's season will start with the first four F1 grands prix in Australia, Bahrain, China and Baku, before he makes his WEC debut at Spa on May 5.

His most intense spell of the year will commence with the Canadian Grand Prix on June 10, which is the first of five consecutive race weekends the Spaniard will compete in that includes Le Mans on June 16/17.

F1's first triple-header of French, Austrian and British Grands Prix completes that run.

He will also face a mammoth three-weekend travel schedule at the end of the year that takes in the Brazilian Grand Prix, the Shanghai WEC event and then F1's season finale in Abu Dhabi.

Alonso's F1 McLaren programme will remain his priority this season, meaning he will skip the Fuji WEC round on the October 20-21 weekend to contest the United States Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso's 2018 F1/WEC schedule

March 25 Australian Grand Prix

April 8 Bahrain Grand Prix

April 15 Chinese Grand Prix

April 29 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

May 5 WEC Spa

May 13 Spanish Grand Prix

May 27 Monaco Grand Prix

June 10 Canadian Grand Prix

June 16-17 Le Mans 24 Hours

June 24 French Grand Prix

July 1 Austrian Grand Prix

July 8 British Grand Prix

July 22 German Grand Prix

July 29 Hungarian Grand Prix

August 19 WEC Silverstone

August 26 Belgian Grand Prix

September 2 Italian Grand Prix

September 16 Singapore Grand Prix

September 30 Russian Grand Prix

October 7 Japanese Grand Prix

October 21 United States Grand Prix

October 28 Mexican Grand Prix

November 11 Brazilian Grand Prix

November 18 WEC Shanghai

November 25 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix