Alonso wants to race in a hypercar in 2021, 2022 or 2023

Fernando Alonso has announced he plans to drive in a hypercar in the near future after the rules for the new series were confirmed on Friday.

Aston Martin were the first constructors to confirm their participation in the new series for 2020 and Alonso has followed suit revealing his intentions. Alonso has experience racing in the World Endurance Championship racing with Toyota Gazoo Racing from 2018 where he won the 2018 24 Hour of Le Mans as well as other WEC races.

Brendan Hartley is set to replace the Spaniard at Toyota for the 2019/20 season but Alonso revealed his desire to compete in the hypercar category.

"I like the idea of ​​the hypercar, the new regulations, that Aston Martin has also committed, and also Toyota and hopefully more brands in the coming weeks," Alonso told AS ahead of the 2019 Le Mans race.

He also gave a time scale of when we could see him in a hypercar adding: "Yes, I will surely be in 2021, 2022 or 2023 with a hypercar, I have already said that the WEC parenthesis is not a definitive goodbye and that I will return, but I do not know if it will be two, three or five years."