McLaren executive director Zak Brown has dismissedꦺ the suggestion that Fernando Alonso could miss the Formula 1 race in Singapore in order to take part in IndyไCar’s season finale at Sonoma, calling it “fake news”.

Tw▨o-time F1 world champion Alonso missed the Monaco Grand Prix to make his debut at the Indianapolis 500 back in May as part of a joint entry between McLaren, Honda and Andretti Autosport, qualifying fifth and leading part of the race be🎃fore ultimately retiring with an engine failure.

Alonso’s evident enjoyment of the IndyCar event led to suggestions that he could be set to make a second appearance at the final race of the year at Sonoma, whic🌞h c🅠lashes with the Singapore Grand Prix.

However, Brown was quick to dismiss the suggest𒁃ion, confir𝓀ming that Alonso would be racing in Singapore as planned.

"It's completely crazy,” .

"He would have to first make that request through us, which he has not, and that event confliꦯcts with ಌF1 in Singapore.

“It's fake news.”