Driving for Renault, he crossed the line in the top three in three of the opening fives races before taking his and Spain’s maiden win in Hungary. 11 countrymen had been on the grid over the years, but none had managed to claim a victory, and only once had one finished on the podium, in 1956.Įl Nano began to change all that in just his second season on the grid. He’s the only Spanish F1 driver to win a raceīefore Alonso came along, Spain hadn’t achieved a huge amount in F1. Despite being the youngest driver, he won, and that would prove to be the case many times as he made his way through the ranks. He spent the following four years driving it whenever he could before competing in his first race at the age of seven.
The pedals were adjusted for him, and his life as a racing driver began. His older sister, Lorena, had little interest in the go-kart that their father had built her, but a three-year-old Fernando immediately fell in love with it.
In the second part Alonso won at Europe and Italy but missed the title by 1 point.Ahead of Fernando Alonso’s highly anticipated return to the grid, refresh your knowledge of the Spaniard with these 10 facts… He was racing before he could count to 10, probablyĮvery driver who made it to Formula 1 got their careers started at a young age, but few would have been quite as young as Alonso was. The second half of the season should prove interesting. Halfway through the season, with wins in Sepang and Monaco, Alonso trails his rookie team-mate by 14 points. In 2007 Alonso joined Team Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes and entered a four-way battle for the World Championship with his team-mate, the rookie Lewis Hamilton, and Ferrari drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa. Renault also retained the Constructor's Championship, beating Ferrari by only five points.
The Drivers' Championship was won again by Fernando with Renault F1 for the second year in a row in 2006 (interestingly, had Alonso not become the youngest World Champion in 2005, he would have still achieved this feat with his 2006 victory) edging out Michael Schumacher of Scuderia Ferrari by 13 points. He won his first F1 title in 2005 and then became the youngest ever Formula 1 World Champion at the age of 24.Īlonso drove until 2006 in Formula 1 for the Renault F1-Team, with which he achieved the driver world championship in the year 2005 and had a major part to play in the Renault F1 Team winning the constructor championship in the same year. Fernando Alonso Díaz (born Jin Oviedo, Spain) is a racing driver in Formula One.
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