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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/">F1 Fanatic</a> - <strong>Fernando Alonso</strong></p> </div> <h2 class="pagetitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/fernando-alonso/" rel="bookmark" title=" Fernando Alonso">Fernando Alonso</a></h2> <div id="post-360" class="post-360 page type-page status-publish hentry"> <div class="entry"> <div class="alignright"><div id="attachment_48714" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 218px"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/07/10/2011-british-grand-prix-pictures/y_alon_ferr_silv_2011-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-48714"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/y_alon_ferr_silv_2011-3-208x117.jpg" alt="Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Silverstone, 2011" title="Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Silverstone, 2011" width="208" height="117" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-48714"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Fernando Alonso won once in 2011, at Silverstone</p></div></p> <p>Born: 29th July 1981<br/>Birthplace: Oviedo, Spain<br/>Find all <a title="F1 Fanatics who are fans of Fernando Alonso" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/members/?s=Fernando%20Alonso">F1 Fanatics who are fans<br/>of Fernando Alonso</a></p> <p><strong>Teams</strong><br/> <a href="#Minardi">Minardi: 2001</a><br/> <a href="#Renault">Renault: 2003-2006</a><br/> <a href="#McLaren">McLaren: 2007</a><br/> <a href="#Renault2">Renault: 2008-2009</a><br/> <a href="#Ferrari">Ferrari: 2010-</a><br/> <a href="#careerstats">Career stats</a></div> <p><strong>Fernando Alonso</strong> made his start in motor racing at the wheel of a kart his father originally bought for Fernando’s sister.</p> <p>He arrived in Formula One with Minardi in 2001 and four years later won his first world championship. He made it back-to-back titles the following year before making an ill-fated switched from Renault to McLaren.</p> <p>He returned to Renault following an acrimonious split from McLaren, and in 2010 took <a title="Kimi Raikkonen" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/kimi-raikkonen/">Kimi Raikkonen’s</a> place at Ferrari.</p> <h3>Karting</h3> <p>Alonso won all eight races in the first series he entered in 1988. As he also continued to perform well at his Santo Angel de la Guarda school his parents were happy for him to continue karting.</p> <p>In 1993 he won the Spanish karting championship with the Genikart team. Two years later he finished third in the World Championships and won the Junior World Championship in 1996.</p> <p>That year he was spotted by former Formula 1 driver Adrian Campos at the Marlboro Masters race in Barcelona, with Alonso won. It was Campos that gave Alonso his first test in a racing car, with Campos’ Formula Nissan team, at Albacete in October 1998.</p> <h3>Formula Nissan & F3000</h3> <p>Although he crashed twice during the test, by the third day he had matched Campos’ race driver Marc Gene’s pole position time from the race at the track earlier that year.</p> <p>Alonso was confirmed with Campos racing for the 1999 Euro Open Movi Star by Nissan series (which later became the World Series by Renault).</p> <p>He took his first win in the series in the second round at Albacete. Entering the final round of the season he had 125 points to championship leader Manuel Giao’s 144. Alonso needed to win and take the fastest lap (which was worth an extra point) in the final round at Valencia to claim the title.</p> <p>Alonso got the job done, which led to his first F1 test at the end of the year with Minardi. He impressed sporting director Cesare Fiorio, beating the other young test drivers by 1.5 seconds.</p> <p>Fiorio said: “The first thing I did was to call [Minardi boss] Gabriele Rumi to draw up a ten-year contract for him before word got round F1 about Fernando and someone stole him from us.”</p> <p>For 2000 he progressed up the motor sport ladder to Formula 3000 with Team Astromega, following an impressive test for Coloni at Jerez. He had arrived in the closest series to Formula One in only his second year of racing cars. He was the youngest driver to contest F3000 that year by 11 months.</p> <p>But it would be a difficult season. Alonso improved his English to communicate better with his mechanics and only at the end of the season did the results start to come.</p> <p>He scored his first point in the seventh round of ten (at the A1-Ring) but took second in the penultimate race the Hungaroring and won the season finale at Spa-Francorchamps. Despite having only three points finishes, he nevertheless finished fourth in the championship behind Bruno Junquiera, Nicolas Minassian and <a title="Mark Webber" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-w/mark-webber/">Mark Webber</a>.<a name="Minardi"></a></p> <h3>Minardi</h3> <p><strong>2001</strong></p> <p>Alonso’s arrival in F1 came at the expense of Gene, who left Minardi as Rumi’s team was taken over by Australian Paul Stoddart. Benetton team boss Flavio Briatore had taken charge of Alonso’s career and steered him into the team.</p> <p>A race against time to prepare Minardi for the 2001 season was won, and Alonso made his Grand Prix debut alongside Tarso Marques.</p> <p>Marques had 12 Grand Prix appearances under his belt, but Alonso put him in the shade from the first qualifying session of the year. Alonso took 19th on the grid, displacing Gaston Mazzacane and Luciano Burti’s faster machinery, and beating Marques by 2.6 seconds.</p> <p>That set the pattern for the year. But the PS01 rarely had the speed to let Alonso display his talent over a race distance. The team suffered poor reliability after the re-introduction of traction control early in the season.</p> <p>Nonetheless Alonso demonstrated his speed in qualifying: 18th in Imola ahead of both Benettons, which he repeated at the A1-Ring. Marques’ started the same races from 22nd and last.</p> <p>There were hiccups – notably while driving a two-seater Minardi at a fans’ day at Donington Park. With ITV-F1 presenter Louise Goodman on board, Alonso’s car was struck by that of 1992 World Champion <a title="Nigel Mansell" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-m/nigel-mansell/">Nigel Mansell</a> (with businessman Jonathan Frost). The collision pitched Mansell’s Minardi into the air.</p> <p>The final round of 2001 was at Suzuka – a track which Alonso had never raced at before, which wasrenowned as one of the most difficult on the calendar. He responded beautifully to the challenge: qualifying 18th and finishing 11th, beating Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s Ferrari-powered Prost, Olivier Panis’ BAR-Honda, both Arrows and his new team mate Alex Yoong.<a name="Renault"></a></p> <h3>Renault</h3> <div id="attachment_41136" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/fernandoalonso_renault_interlagos_2006_3.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/fernandoalonso_renault_interlagos_2006_3-470x352.jpg" alt="Fernando Alonso, Renault, Interlagos, 2006" title="Fernando Alonso, Renault, Interlagos, 2006" width="470" height="352" class="size-medium wp-image-41136"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alonso clinched a second consecutive title in 2006</p></div> <p><strong>2002</strong></p> <p>For the following year Briatore was eager to slot Alonso in at Benetton, which was being taken over by Renault, in place of British driver <a title="Jenson Button" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-b/jenson-button/">Jenson Button</a>. Button had fared poorly compared to team mate Giancarlo Fisichella in 2001.</p> <p>But Button kept his seat, Fisichella traded places with <a title="Jarno Trulli" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-t/jarno-trulli/">Jarno Trulli</a>, and so Briatore moved Alonso into a test role.</p> <p>Twelve months and 1,642 laps of Silverstone, Valencia, Jerez and Catalunya later, Alonso was promoted to the <a title="Renault" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/f1-teams/renault/">Renault</a> race team for 2003, replacing Button.</p> <p><strong>2003</strong></p> <p>He did not disappoint. At the second race of the season in Malaysia he became the youngest ever pole position holder.</p> <p>Then, in Hungary, he claimed the title of youngest ever Grand Prix winner, lapping eventual champion <a title="Michael Schumacher" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-s/michael-schumacher/">Michael Schumacher</a> en route.</p> <p>He completed his first season in a competitive car sixth with 55 points, 22 more than team mate Trulli.</p> <p><strong>2004</strong></p> <p>When Ferrari dominated the 2004 season Alonso had few opportunities to take win. One presented itself at Monte-Carlo but, unusually, Alonso was beaten to it by Trulli.</p> <p>The other Renault driver took a flawless victory from pole. Alonso crashed in the tunnel while lapping <a title="Ralf Schumacher" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-s/ralf-schumacher/">Ralf Schumacher</a>.</p> <p>But before the end of 2004 Trulli was out, losing favour with Briatore, and being replaced for 2005 by the returning Fisichella.</p> <p><strong>2005</strong></p> <p>Ferrari faltered in 2005 and Renault were perfectly placed to take advantage with the R25.</p> <p>Alonso was merciless in his domination of his new team mate and his pursuit of the championship. Although Fisichella won first time out at Melbourne, Alonso had stormed to third from 13th having suffered from rain on his qualifying lap.</p> <p>It was Alonso who did the rest of the winning that year, taking seven victories and the championship. His Renault often trailled <a title="Kimi Raikkonen" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-r/kimi-raikkonen/">Kimi Raikkonen’s</a> McLaren on pure speed, but it was usually more reliable. That, allied to Alonso’s unrelenting speed which forced costly mistakes from Raikkonen at least twice, made him a worthy champion.</p> <p>But there was no ignoring the fact that his championship had come in a season of atypical misfortune for <a title="Ferrari" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/f1-teams/ferrari/">Ferrari</a> and Schumacher, largely due to regulations that prohibited tyre changes. This was reversed for 2006, and a resurgent Schumacher presented a wholly different threat to Alonso.</p> <p>Surprisingly, Alonso revealed in December of 2005 that he would leave Renault for <a title="McLaren" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/f1-teams/mclaren/">McLaren</a> in 2007.</p> <p><strong>2006</strong></p> <p>He went into 2006 knowing it would be his last with Renault. He dominated the early races before Schumacher mounted a mid-season fightback. The pair took the championship battle to the last race in a tense and often controversial fight that could not have been scripted better.</p> <p>After nine races Alonso had 84 points from a potential 90 – more even that Schumacher had scored in his dominant 2004 campaign. But Ferrari hit back – with a revised aerodynamic package, improved Bridgestone tyres, and a driver who had resolved to retire at the end of the season and was determined to take the title with him.</p> <p>They had more than that on their side. Renault’s innovative mass damper system was banned amid accusations of pro-Ferrari bias from the governing body.</p> <p>Then came an extraordinary penalty handed to Alonso at Monza for allegedly impeding Schumacher’s team mate <a title="Felipe Massa" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-m/felipe-massa/">Felipe Massa</a>. Alonso fumed on Sunday morning before the race, telling the press: “<a href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2006/09/10/i-dont-consider-f1-a-sport-anymore/">I no longer consider F1 a sport.</a>”</p> <p>That afternoon Schumacher won and went public with his retirement plans. Alonso retired from the race, when his engine blew after he had strained the Renault to its limits dragging it into third place.</p> <p>At the Japanese Grand Prix Bridgestone appeared to have found an enormous new advantage in qualifying – both Ferraris and both Toyotas were ahead of Alonso.</p> <p>Alonso dispatched the two Toyotas early in the race and drew within five seconds of his rival. The pair screamed around Suzuka at full pelt. Alonso’s car had already let him down twice this year – now it was Schumacher’s turn. Alonso punched the air as he passed the stationary, smoking Ferrari at Degner 2, and won the race.</p> <p>He clinched the championship at the final round where Schumacher again ran into car trouble. Alonso had beaten the seven-time champion and 91-time race winner, and become the youngest driver ever to win back-to-back titles.<a name="McLaren"></a></p> <h3>McLaren</h3> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hami_alon_mcla_nurb_2007.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hami_alon_mcla_nurb_2007.jpg" alt="" title="Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, McLaren, Nurburgring, 2007, 470313" width="470" height="313" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6610"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Unhappy times with Hamilton at McLaren in 2007</p></div> <p>Alonso came very close to taking a third consecutive championship in 2007. He finished third in the title race, one point behind victor Kimi Raikkonen, and tied with team mate <a title="Lewis Hamilton" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/lewis-hamilton/">Lewis Hamilton</a>.</p> <p><strong>2007</strong></p> <p>But Alonso found himself at the centre of an acrimonious dispute with the McLaren team with opinion divided over whether he was the instigator or the victim.</p> <p>There were signs early in the season that Alonso was unhappy with the rookie Hamilton’s early run of success. He became increasingly vocal with his demands that the team concentrate on backing his title bid, even as Hamilton took the lead of the championship.</p> <p>Relations within the team broke down completely at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton refused an instruction from the team to allow Alonso past during qualifying, so Alonso retaliated by delaying Hamilton in the pits, preventing his team mate from setting a final lap time.</p> <p>The stewards punished Alonso for baulking Hamilton and McLaren for failing to provide an adequate explanation of what happened.</p> <p>During the course of the season McLaren had defended itself against allegations that it had obtained confidential information about Ferrari’s car. Team principal Ron Dennis claimed that on the morning of the Hungarian race Alonso threatened to expose compromising information about the alleged espionage of Dennis did not rein Hamilton in.</p> <p>McLaren persisted with its policy of giving both drivers equal treatment and Alonso alienated himself further from the team, increasing his public complaints about their operation.</p> <p>At the final round, at the request of the Spanish racing authority, an independent adjudicator was stationed in the McLaren pit during qualifying to ensure there was no foul play. He found none.</p> <p>Alonso and Hamilton unable to keep Raikkonen from clinching the title in the final race. Shortly after the season ended McLaren terminated their contract with Alonso and he returned to Renault for 2008.<a name="Renault2"></a></p> <h3>Renault</h3> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/alon_barc_rena_2008_q_470313.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/alon_barc_rena_2008_q_470313.jpg" alt="Fernando Alonso, Renault, Barcelona, qualifying, 2008, 470313" title="Fernando Alonso, Renault, Barcelona, qualifying, 2008, 470313" width="470" height="313" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6627"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alonso returned to Renault for two more years</p></div> <p><strong>2008</strong></p> <p>The Renault Alonso returned to in 2008 was not the team he left two years earlier. The R28 was off the pace, and in the first half of the season it was all Alonso could do to get it into the points. After seven races he’d scored just nine.</p> <p>A string of aerodynamic developments helped bring the R28 back on terms with the front runners in the second half of the season.</p> <p>But some members of the team felt they needed more than performance to win races, and at Singapore Alonso’s team mate <a href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-p/nelson-piquet-jnr/">Nelson Piquet Jnr</a> was unconscionably ordered to crash his car on purpose to help Alonso win the race.</p> <p>The plan worked, but in the very next race at Fuji Alonso won on merit. He out-ran BMW’s <a title="Robert Kubica" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-k/robert-kubica/">Robert Kubica</a>, and a strong second in the season finale brought him up to fifth in the drivers’ championship.</p> <p><strong>2009</strong></p> <p>He remained at Renault for 2009, but the R29 proved even less competitive than its predecessor and it took until the 14th round at Singapore for Alonso to even get on the podium.</p> <p>Coincidentally, it was the first weekend after Briatore and engineering director Pat Symonds had left F1 in disgrace after the conspiracy of the previous year was exposed. The FIA’s World Motor Sports Council determined Alonso had not known about the plan.<a name="Ferrari"></a></p> <p>Shortly after that exoneration Ferrari finally confirmed the long-standing suspicions that Alonso would join the team for 2010, alongside Massa.</p> <h3>Ferrari</h3> <div id="attachment_38604" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/alon_ferr_kore_2010-4.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504032338im_/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/alon_ferr_kore_2010-4-470x313.jpg" alt="Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Korea, 2010" title="Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Korea, 2010" width="470" height="313" class="size-medium wp-image-38604"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Victory in Korea gave Alonso a shot at a third title in 2010</p></div> <p><strong>2010</strong></p> <p>Alonso got his Ferrari career off to a perfect start with victory in his first race for the team at Bahrain. But his championship prospect were stymied by a series of problems including a jump start at China, a penalty at Silverstone, a crash during practice at Monaco and some reliability problems.</p> <p>He came roaring back in the second half of the season following a controversial victory in Germany, where Massa was ordered to let him win, contravening the FIA’s ban on team orders. Alonso added further victories in Italy, Singapore and Korea to lead the championship heading into the final race.</p> <p>But a potential third world championship slipped through his fingers after a tactical error by the team at Abu Dhabi. <a title="Sebastian Vettel" href="/web/20120504032338/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-v/sebastian-vettel/">Sebastian Vettel</a> grabbed the title at the final round while Alonso spent most of the race stuck behind Vitaly Petrov, one of his successors at Renault.</p> <p><strong>2011</strong></p> <p>After the disappointment of losing the title came another blow: the new 150° Italia wasn’t quick enough to challenge for the championship in 2011. Alonso won just once, at Silverstone, after a change in the rules temporarily restricted the use of exhaust-blown diffusers, something Ferrari had struggled to master.</p> <p>Alonso continued to operate at the peak of his considerable abilities, finishing on the podium ten times while Massa never made it as far as fourth place.</p> <p>He ended the year fourth in the championship, but was helpless to prevent Vettel succeeding him as the youngest twice-champion. 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