Alonso: 'All looking good but the real thing starts now'

Fernando Alonso completed his Indy 500rookie test without the slightest glitch this morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The Spaniard followed the mandatory procedure, raking in the laps at the required average speeds without any issues and looking comfortable out on the race track.

"It was fun," said Alonso after his first stint in the stroking papaya orange McLaren-Honda-Andretti Dallara.

"I think it's a good way to start to build the speed. It was probably a little bit difficult at the beginning to reach the minimum, but next in the next stages I felt good.

"Hopefully we can put some laps now and start feeling the car a little bit because at the moment the car is driving itself. I'm not driving the car.

"We are already with 40 laps in my pocket so you are able to fine-tune the lines a little bit and up-shifts and down-shifts, which gear to use in which corner," he added.

"At the moment everything looks good but now the real thing starts."

• Alonso passes Indy rookie test with flying colors!

The McLaren driver was full of praise for Andretti Autosport  and  its "amazingly helpful" members for his first Indycar experience.

"So far it has been good. The team was amazingly helpful. Running alone is quite okay, but we'll see later over the next weeks," he said.

Gallery: Alonso's Indy 500 challenger

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