Fernando Alonso information & statistics

Biography

Fernando Alonso Biography

Alonso driving his 1st F1 season for Minardi in 2001

In 1983 Fernando had his first racing experience. His father (Jose Luis Alonso) was a big karting fan. He had build a go-kart for his 8 year older sister. His sister didn’t got the hang off it. Her brother Ferando did. At theage of 5/6 Fernando was much faster than other kids of his age.

From 1994 until 1997 he won 3 consecutive karting championships in Spain. He also became world champion karting in 1996. In 1999 he got involved in open  the so called NIssan Euro-Open series. That year he became champion after no more than 6 victories.

The next year (2000) he moved on to Formula 3000. He drove there at the Astromega team. After a second place on the Hungaroring in Hungary he won at Spa-Francorchamps. He got to 4th overall in the driver championship that year.

Alonso driving for Renault in Australia (2005)

After his short but impressive adventure in Formula 3000, he was offered a seat in Formula 1 by Minardi. He had his F1 debut on the 4th March of 2001 at the F1 GP of Australia. At the age of 19 Fernando was one of the youngest F1 drivers ever, he out qualified his teammate Tarso Marques and was able to finish an impressive 12 place. In 2001 he never was able to score a point. It was all because of he drove the slowest F1 car of the field. He had to retire 8 times because of technical failure. Alonso drove very good. He never crashed into other cars or spun of the track.

Fernando had an impressive first year in Formula 1. Because of this he got a contract at Flavio Briatore’s Renault team and became their F1 test driver.

In 2003 he became F1 driver for Renault and got Jenson Button’s seat. He won his first Formula 1 Grand Prix this year at the Hungaroring. He even was able to lap Michael Schumacher during this GP. This season he finished 6th overal in the F1 drivers championship.

Alonso driving the McLaren MP4-22 (2007)

2004 he could not make a fist against the superior Ferrari F2004 with Michael Schumacher as F1 pilot. In this season Alonso finished 4th in the drivers championship and was not able to win a single race.

In 2005 he won his first Formula 1 drivers championship with an impressive 7 Formula 1 Grand Prix victories, while Michael Schumacher was at Ferrari.

In 2006 he won his second Formula 1 drivers championship and also got to win 7 Formula 1 Grand Prix victories. This year Michael Schumacher retired, because of he felt he wasn’t able to keep up the young guys…

2007 was the year he drove at McLaren and got to know Lewis Hamilton very well…

After his 2007 season with McLaren en just missed out his third F1 drivers title by 1 point to Kimi Raikkonen he moved back to Renault.

2008 was the year at Renault that he finished 5th in the drivers championship and won 2 races.

In 2009 the Renault wasn’t fast enough to win races. He finished a poor 9th place in the championship.

Best victory of Alonso in Valencia European F1 GP (2012)

2010 was his first year at Scuderia Ferrari. The car was as slow as his 2009 Renault. He therefore got 9th place again in the drivers championship.

2011 was a lot better for Fernando Alonso and Ferrari. Until the last race in Abu Dhabi there where 3 title contenders. Because of a poor race strategy he and Ferrari lost the 2011 F1 drivers championship to Sebastian Vettel.

The 2012 was very exciting for Fernando. He is on top of the F1 drivers championship and almost won the title. It all depended on whether or not Ferrari could keep up it’s technical development. They lost the title in the last race to Vettel and Red Bull and finished 2nd.

The 2013 F1 season started quite different with a competitive Ferrari F138…

The official Alonso website can be found here.

Championship Results

Fernando Alonso F1 Championship Results

Year	Team	Engine	Races	1st	2nd	3rd	Podiums	Poles	Laps	Fastest	Avg Pts	Points
2013	Ferrari	Ferrari	7	2	2	0	4	0	386	0	13.71	96
2012	Ferrari	Ferrari	20	3	5	5	13	2	1095	0	13.90	278
2011	Ferrari	Mercedes	19	1	5	4	10	0	1098	1	13.53	257
2010	Ferrari	Ferrari	19	5	2	3	10	2	1120	5	13.26	252
2009	Renault	Renault	17	0	0	1	1	1	843	2	1.53	26
2008	Renault	Renault	18	2	1	0	3	0	1000	0	3.39	61
2007	McLaren	Mercedes	17	4	4	4	12	2	1039	3	6.41	109
2006	Renault	Renault	18	7	7	0	14	6	1108	5	7.44	134
2005	Renault	Renault	18	7	5	3	15	6	1074	2	7.39	133
2004	Renault	Renault	18	0	1	3	4	1	949	0	3.28	59
2003	Renault	Renault	16	1	1	2	4	2	892	1	3.44	55
2001	Minardi	European	17	0	0	0	0	0	707	0	0.00	0

Race Results

Fernando Alonso F1 GP Race Results

Podium Finishes

Fernando Alonso F1 Podium Finishes

Pole Positions

Fernando Alonso F1 Pole Positions

Teammate Comparison

Fernando Alonso Teammate Comparison