K🔜evin Magnussen is open to making a full-time switch to IndyCar after his Formula 1 career&nb🔜sp;so he can fulfill a long-held dream of racing in the Indianapolis 500.

McLaren's Fernando Alonso made his Indy 500 debut last 🐲year as part of his bid to win the 'Triple Crown of Motorsport', leading to suggest🍃ions about other F1 drivers that could also enter, with the event ranking highly on Haas driver Magnussen's future career wish-list.

"I would loꦇve to do it. I woul꧋d never put aside Formula 1 to do it, but I would love to do it," Magnussen told wuqian0821.com.

"I🎐t’s one of those things that I dr📖eam about at night sometimes. It’s just something that really turns me on."

Magnussen added that he would want to prepare♔ as much as possible for an Indy 500 entry by incorporating it into a full season of IndyCar, but stressed his long-term focus remained on F1.

"I wouldn’t do it at the same꧅ time as Formula 1. I wouldn’t like to do that," Magnussen said.

"It would require full focus, and I’d like to do more than just the Indy 500. I’d like to do a full season of IndyCar i💛f I was going to do it I think. But ꩲwhether I’ll get a chance to do that, I don’t know.

"If I race here for 15 years, then would ♕you real🦋ly want to go and do that after? Maybe. Maybe not."

MCLAREN BLOCKED 2015 ANDRETTI DEAL

Now entering his fourth full season in F1, Magnussen came close to secur♔ing an IndyCar seat back in 2015 after being dropped from McLaren's full-time line-up, only for the team to block the deal with Andretti Autosport.

"I went to Andretti in Indianapolis, I had talksꦗ with them, and I nearly had a go. It was very, very close," Magnussen said.

"But things didn’t turn out as I wanted wi🔯th McLaren. I didn’t really have the support that I needed from them at the time. They suওpported me very well before that, but in that moment, they didn’t do a great job, I have to admit.

"So I ended up not driving at all and having a season completely out of dr🍒iving, which was a catastrophe for me, and it would be for any racing driver. So it didn’t happen."

Magnussen spent one season in a reserve role at McLaren, making one grand 🃏prix start in Australia in place of the injured Alonso before retuܫrning to a full-time seat with Renault in 2016.

However, the Dane does not believe a move to IndyCar in 2015 would have marked the end of his🔥 F1 career and made it impossible to come back.

꧅"I don't think so, not necessarily," Magnussen said.

"In some ways it would have been bett✅er♔ for my career if I had had a season driving something and racing.

"I think I still would have had the opportunities that I haꦕd eventually."