F1 to mourn Spanair victims

FERNANDO ALONSO is hoping to conduct a minute’s silence with his fellow drivers in the wake of Wednesday’s Spanish air disaster.

The country yesterday began a three-day national period of mourning after 153 people were killed at Madrid airport as a Spanair holiday flight attempted a second take-off for Las Palmas in Gran Canaria.

Just 19 passengers and six crew survived Spain’s worst aviation tragedy since 1983, and in the eyes of Alonso, it has cast a shadow over this weekend’s European Grand Prix in Valencia.