A WEEK IS A LONG TIME . . .

FERNANDO ALONSO’S victory at the Le Mans 24-hour race last Sunday must feel like a lifetime ago. Contact with Sebastian Vettel on lap six sent him into a spin and he was raging over the radio by lap 40. ‘I have no brakes. I have no tyres. We are out of the points,’ shouted the Spaniard, who retired the car at the end.