Toyota impressed by 'disciplined', 'keen' Alonso in WEC test
Toyota LMP1 technical director Pascal Vasselon was pleased with Fernando Alonso's 🍒first sports car test outing in Bahrain on Sunday, saying the McLꦆaren Formula 1 driver was both "disciplined" and "keen" in his display.
Alonso completed over 💜100 laps during his first LMP1 test for Toyota at th🗹e Bahrain International Circuit as part of the FIA World Endurance Championship's rookie test at the end of the season.
The♕ two-time F1 world champion is keen to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year, with this test acting as a first step towards doing so.

Toyota LMP1 technical director Pascal Vasselon was pleased with Fernando Alonso'♛s first sports car test outing in Bahrain on Sunday, saying the McLaren Formula 1 driver was both "disciplined" and "keen" in his display.
Alonso completed over 100 laps during his first LMP1 tes🦩t for Toyota at the Bahrain International Circuit as part of the FIA World Endurance🅰 Championship's rookie test at the end of the season.
The two-time F1 world champion is keen to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year, with th💟is test acting ﷽as a first step towards doing so.
While Toyota was unable to speak to♋o much about Alonso's test given his contractual status with Honda via McLaren, Vasselon told reporters after the session he was happy with the performance.
"A ve🀅ry good job, very disciplined. No spins, no off-track, no damage on the car, which is the first t🍃arget we give when they jump into a TS050,” Vasselon said.
“So all in all, good. We’ve done obviously a bit more work with Fernando. After getting familiar with the car ⛦he went this afternoon 🅘to do some tyre testing, complementing what Mike [Conway] was doing on the other car.
"I think Fernando has achieved more than 100 la♑ps, so more than during a Formula 1 weekend. All good.
“We did not do any low-fuel runs, we did not do any qualifying runs. There was no trophy to win. We’🔯ve done a full tank all day long and w꧙orking as much as we could.
“I think he enjoyed it. But you have to ask him! I’m sure he has enjo𝓰yed it. He spent a lot of time a🍒lready with the engineers. He’s very keen to understand our systems.”