Fernando Alonso says he is “100 percent” certain he will re🐻turn to the World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans after b🔜owing out as champion with Toyota Gazoo Racing.

The two-time Formula 1 world champion has secured his third world title with a second Le Mans victory, albeit in fortunat👍e circumstances ac🌊cording to Alonso, which caps a triumphജant maiden campaign in WEC.

With two Le Mans wins and a WEC title to his name, Alonso will step away from endurance racing “to be more open for my options next year” as💟 he sizes up the next step ౠin his career.

“This WEC programme, it’s not for next year because I think it was hard to commit now to start the next season next month until June 2020,” Alonso said. “I want to beౠ a little bit more open for my options for next year.

“I’m 100 percent will come back to WEC races in the future and Le Mans. I love this race, the championship,🍬 the atmosphere here. It’s a short break.”

Alonso has his sights firmly set on completing the ‘Triple Crown’ of motorsports with just the Indiana🌄polis 500 out of his grasp to finish off his feat.

After a disastro꧙us return to the Indy 500 with McLaren last month, where he failed to qualify for the race, the Spaniard has naturally been linked with IndyCar de𓆉spite initially ruling out a full season campaign stateside.

Alonso also appears eager to maintain links at Toyota with specul🐎ation growing over a potential Dakar Rally entry with the Japanese brand.

While Alonso remain coy on his immediate future, he is eager to pay tribute to WEC and Toyota after a glittering single season in the s♛eries.

“I 𒆙will say goodbye but this first chapter in WEC has been amazing,” he said. “This incredible team winning all the races with car 8 or car 7 and now being World Endurance Champion and a two-time Le Mans winner is something that I could not believe when I signed for this programme.

“I am happy for this and sometimes in motorsport you have bad mom🍌ents and tough moments and sometimes you get amazingly good news. Today is one of those positive days.”

Two-time WEC champion and 201ꦫ7 Le Mans winner with Porsche Brendon Hartley steps in to replace Alons🍎o in the #8 Toyota alongside Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima for the 2019-2020 WEC season.