Le Mans: Alonso proud of 'legend' Kubica

MONTREAL -- Fernando Alonso labelled Sunday a "good time for motorsport" aft erstwhile Formula 1 operator Robert Kubica won the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Kubica, who's promising F1 vocation was chopped abbreviated by a rally clang successful 2011, was portion of Ferrari's winning outfit connected Sunday.

When helium suffered his career-altering injury, Kubica had signed a woody to articulation Ferrari's Formula 1 squad -- which would person made him Alonso's teammate astatine the time, but the determination ne'er happened.

"I'm precise blessed for him," said Alonso, who won the celebrated endurance contention successful 2018 and 2019 with Toyota. "We talked a fewer times astir however peculiar that races and helium deserves, to acquisition that... he's a fable of our sport, and present he's adjacent much aft winning Le Mans successful his career.

"You cognize immoderate of the symptom that helium went done with the mishap and things similar that, I think, contiguous is simply a precise blessed time for motorsport."

"So blessed for him, I volition telephone him tomorrow. I didn't privation to disturb today! He volition beryllium celebrating, but highly happy. I'm arrogant of him."

Fittingly, Kubica's triumph came successful tandem with the lawsuit which hosted some his champion and worst moments successful Formula 1.

At the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix, Kubica walked distant from an tremendous clang with a concussion and sprained ankle.

A twelvemonth later, helium claimed his maiden F1 triumph successful Montreal -- a effect helium ne'er replicated again.

Before taking portion successful the Canadian GP, Alonso had retweeted a station astir him and the Pole being the lone drivers to triumph an F1 contention and Le Mans this century.

Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg is the lone different Le Mans 24 Hours victor connected the F1 grid.