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Fernando Alonso Bio

 

Date Of Birth: July 29th, 1981
Place Of Birth: Oviedo, Spain
Height: 171cm
Weight: 68kg

First Grand Prix: Australia 2001
Race Starts: 120
Wins: 21
Poles: 17
Podiums: 51
Fastest Laps: 11
Points: 551

Formula One History:


1994 : Spanish Kart Champion
1996 : Spanish Kart Champion, World Kart Champion
1997 : Spanish Kart Champion
1998 : European Kart Championship (2nd)
1999 : Euro Open by Nissan: Champion

2000 : Formula 1 (Minardi), Test Driver, F3000: 4th
2001 : Formula 1 (Minardi), 23rd with 0 points.
2002 : Formula 1 (Renault), Test Driver
2003 : Formula 1 (Renault), 6th with 55 points.
2004 : Formula 1 (Renault), 4th with 59 points.
2005 : Formula 1 (Renault), becomes the youngest ever World, Champion, 133 points.
2006 : Formula 1 (Renault), World Champion with 134 points.
2007 : Formula 1 (McLaren), 3rd with 109 points
2008 : Formula 1 (Renault), 5th  with 61 points

2009 : Formula 1 (Renault)

Fernando is very cool about showing his emotions, just a little euphoria, and after a while he will usually give a hug. He acts as if he knows everything. However, things are going on inside him. After winning the race in Hungary in 2003, he went among the computers and shouted “what I have done, what I have done” and then he went out with a completely different face. He does not show things on the outside, but he clearly feels them.  Fernando knows how to switch off. Pressure does not affect him because he “closes” the door.

 The most important moment of the 2003 season “Pole position in Malaysia was very exciting. Even better than being on the podium and everything else. That pole was the beginning, an exciting moment. Winning in Hungary was more important, but Malaysia showed that he was one of the greats. He got into a car, and in the second race says here I am. He joined the stars’ club”.

 From then on, it was more difficult for Fernando to go unnoticed and lead a quiet life. “Well, I’ve learned to live with that, but I try to carry on a normal life, do the usual things for a lad of my age, and carry on with my sports career, my physical training and try to keep doing it well”.
Fernando Alonso became the youngest winner in the history of Formula 1 with his victory at the 2003 Hungarian G.P. at just 22 years and 16 days old. It marks the high spot in racing in Spain and the world. Renault’s advertising campaign in some European countries, with pictures of when he was three years old, has had a lot to do with this.  Until the 2003 race in Hungary, the New Zealander, Bruce McLaren, founder of the McLaren team boasted the record that Alonso smashed, since McLaren’s first victory was in the USA Grand Prix in 1959 on the Sebring circuit, aged 22 years and 104 days”.

Fernando Alonso is one of just two active world champions in Formula 1, having secured the drivers’ crown in both 2005 and 2006 with the Renault F1 Team. Born on 29 July 1981 in Oviedo, the Asturian holds the record as youngest pole-sitter, youngest Grand Prix winner and youngest World Champion in Formula 1. He has won 19 Grands Prix, 17 pole positions and set 11 fastest laps during his career, and scored a total of 490 points. He returns to the Renault F1 Team after one season at McLaren, during which he finished third in the drivers’ championship.

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