F1 stars Alonso, Perez to drive Supercars

Formula 1 veterans Fernando Alonso and Sergio Perez will steer Supercars at Albert Park.

Alonso and Perez are in Melbourne for this weekend’s third round of the 2022 F1 season.

The Albert Park event is also playing host to this weekend’s Beaurepaires Melbourne 400.

Alonso is slated to steer Thomas Randle’s Tickford Castrol Mustang on Thursday.

The two-time F1 champion, who has also won 32 races, won in Melbourne in 2006.

Perez celebrating his Azerbaijan win last year

The 335-race veteran's last win came in Barcelona in 2013 for Ferrari.

Alonso’s Alpine team is affiliated with Castrol, which is the naming rights backer of Randle’s car.

Perez, meanwhile, will drive a Red Bull Ampol Racing Commodore.

The Mexican driver, a winner of two Grands Prix, will steer the team’s spare car on Thursday.

The car cut laps on Thursday morning in a ride session with Jamie Whincup behind the wheel.

Alonso and Perez are far from the first F1 drivers to steer Supercars machinery.

Local driver Daniel Riccardo steered a Rick Kelly Nissan Altima at Calder Park in 2019.

That same year, current world champion Max Verstappen was taken for a ride with Whincup.

The eight-time Grand Prix winner also drove a Red Bull-liveried 'Sandman' Supercar at Sandown in 2016.

Jenson Button famously drove a McLaren F1 car around Mount Panorama in 2011.

Button also drove a Triple Eight Commodore the day he set an unofficial lap record in Bathurst.

Supercars will take to Albert Park for four 20-lap sprint races, with the first on Friday.