Fernando Alonso believes his victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours a week ago should be considered one of the best ever at the endurance event.

The double Formula 1 world champion opted to complete the full WEC 'super-season' alongside his duties at McLaren, which will run over the next two years.

But it was the event at the Circuit de la Sarthe which had the most significance, as his win alongside Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima meant he added a second leg of motorsport's Triple Crown, consisting of Le Mans, the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500, which he attempted in 2017.

Upon his return to the F1 paddock on Thursday though, ahead of Sunday's race in France, Alonso was asked if the domination of Toyota, as the sole hybrid manufacturer in the LMP1 class, took some shine off the achievement.

“Last year were only four cars, this year there were 10,” he was quoted by PlanetF1, with 10 the number of entries in the LMP1 category.

“It was a great challenge. I put this victory in a higher level than any other victory in Le Mans.”

With 12 laps of the 13km circuit separating Alonso's car and the first non-Toyota in third, the jury could still be out on that, though the success did end several years of heartbreak at La Sarthe, including seeing the same car retire on the final lap in 2016.

Naturally, attention is now switching to when the 36-year-old will head back to Indianapolis, the only race that stands between him and matching the achievement only previously done by Graham Hill.

It comes amid rumours Fernando may switch full-time to IndyCar in 2019 as part of a McLaren entry, but for now, he remains tight-lipped.

“I didn’t think too much yet about this," he claimed.

“As I said last year when I entered the Indy 500, that was a very attractive target to achieve the triple crown and be a little bit more complete driver, not only drive F1 cars.

“With the Le Mans victory, it puts me a little bit closer to that target. I will think and I will see what I do next year.”

Something that Alonso does think his foray into other categories is doing is changing the mindset of the current generation of racing drivers back to a time when their predecessors would look at new challenges.

"In the last two decades, I think we were more into professional drivers in one discipline maximising the skills in that discipline," he told Autosport.

"So what we are doing now is quite going back a couple of decades and changing motorsport and I'm happy to lead that change.

"It's a bit of a change to the current motorsport norm, where you focus on a single series and you develop all your skills for a single car and a single set of rules and a style of driving.

"What we've done over the past years is probably a revolution for motorsport."