FERNANDO ALONSO F1

ESPAÑOL:

Fernando Alonso Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: feɾˈnando aˈlonso ˈði.aθ; born 29 July 1981) is a Spanish racing driver currently competing for Aston Martin in Formula One. He won the series' World Drivers' Championship in 2005 and 2006 with Renault, and has also driven for McLaren, Ferrari, and Minardi. With Toyota, Alonso won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, in 2018 and 2019, and the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2018-19. He also won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Wayne Taylor Racing in 2019.

Born in Oviedo, Asturias to a working-class family, Alonso began kart racing at the age of three and achieved success in local, national, and world championships. He progressed to car racing at the age of 17, winning the Euro Open by Nissan in 1999 and was fourth in the International Formula 3000 Championship of 2000. He debuted in Formula One with Minardi in 2001 before joining Renault as a test driver for 2002. Promoted to a race seat in 2003, Alonso won two drivers' championships in 2005 and 2006, becoming the youngest pole-sitter, youngest race winner, youngest world champion, and youngest two-time champion in the sport's history at the time. After finishing just one point behind eventual champion Kimi Räikkönen with McLaren in 2007, he returned to Renault for 2008 and 2009 and won two races in the former year for fifth overall. Alonso drove for Ferrari from 2010 to 2014, finishing runner-up to Sebastian Vettel in 2010, 2012, and 2013 with the title battles in 2010 and 2012 going down to the last race of the season. A second stint with McLaren from 2015 to 2018 resulted in no further success. After a two-year sabbatical, Alonso returned to Formula One in 2021 with Alpine. At the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix, Alonso scored his first podium in seven years. At the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix, he broke the record for most starts in Formula One. At the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Alonso scored his 100th podium by finishing third, becoming one of six drivers in the series' history to achieve that feat.

At the time of his sabbatical, Alonso had won 32 Grands Prix, 22 pole positions, and 1,899 points from 311 starts. He is currently the only Spanish Formula One driver to have won the World Championship. Alonso won the 2001 Race of Champions Nations Cup with the rally driver Jesús Puras and the motorcyclist Rubén Xaus for Team Spain and thrice entered the Indianapolis 500 in 2017, 2019 and 2020. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports, the Premios Nacionales del Deporte Sportsman of the Year Award and the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit and has twice been inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame. Alonso runs an esports and junior racing team and is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

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SPANISH:

Fernando Alonso Díaz (Oviedo, Asturias; July 29, 1981) is a Spanish motor racing driver, recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award in 2005. He has twice won the Formula 1 World Championship in 2005 and 2006,3resulted runner-up in 2010, 2012 and 2013, and took third place in 2007. He was champion of the 2019 FIA World Endurance Championship, the 2018 and 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona and the 1996 World Karting Championship.

In his career he competed for the Minardi, Renault, McLaren, Ferrari, Alpine and Aston Martin teams, with the Maranello team being his team from 2010 to 2014, where he achieved his three runner-up finishes and his only Grand Chelem. He left Ferrari and in 2015 returned to McLaren until his retirement in 2018. After two years out of the category, in 2021 he returned with the Alpine team, part of the Renault family, with which he won his two championships. From 2023 he is part of the Aston Martin team replacing Sebastian Vettel.

In addition to competing in this category, he has driven in the 2017, 2019 and 2020 Indianapolis 500 Miles alongside McLaren, eventually leading the race in his first appearance, in the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona with a Ligier for United Autosports, in the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona with a Cadillac for Wayne Taylor Racing, and in the 2018-19 World Endurance Championship and the 2020 Dakar Rally for Toyota Gazoo Racing.

Fernando Alonso is the seventh driver with the most wins in Formula 1 history with 32 Grand Prix wins and the sixth driver with the most podium finishes: 100.45 His wins include three at the Malaysian Grand Prix, three at the German Grand Prix, three at the European Grand Prix and three at the Bahrain Grand Prix. In 2017, he is inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame.6789 In 2019, he is again inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame, this time as WEC champion, becoming the first driver in history to be a double Hall of Fame inductee by belonging to the list of champions of two different FIA categories.1011

Along with Alfonso de Portago, Pedro de la Rosa and Carlos Sainz Jr. he is one of the four Spaniards who have reached the podium in Formula 1, being together with the latter the only ones to have achieved victories. He is also the only driver in history to make his debut with three different teams, McLaren (2007), Scuderia Ferrari (2010) and Aston Martin (2023), and one of only four drivers to have debuted at Ferrari with a victory in the first race.

Z: 300mm

Z: 300mm