Fernando Alonso promises F1-style cycling team

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Spanish Formula One driver, Fernando Alonso promised to bring his experience over to his new cycling team. He plans to debut his team in the 2015 season.

"Teams have about 40 employees, and I want to be able to count on them to do their job without me having to call every day, because my job is to race Formula One. I will hire people I know from my racing cars, someone from Benetton, others from Renault, someone from Ferrari," Alonso told L'Equipe newspaper.

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.