Global InformationFernando Alonso information
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 Alonso in 2018 | |||||||
| Born | Fernando Alonso Díaz 29 July 1981 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain | ||||||
| Formula One World Championship career | |||||||
| Nationality |  Spanish | ||||||
| 2024 team | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes[1] | ||||||
| Car number | 14 | ||||||
| Entries | 385 (382 starts) | ||||||
| Championships | 2 (2005, 2006) | ||||||
| Wins | 32 | ||||||
| Podiums | 106 | ||||||
| Career points | 2298 | ||||||
| Pole positions | 22 | ||||||
| Fastest laps | 25 | ||||||
| First entry | 2001 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||
| First win | 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix | ||||||
| Last win | 2013 Spanish Grand Prix | ||||||
| Last entry | 2024 Chinese Grand Prix | ||||||
| 2023 position | 4th (206 pts) | ||||||
| FIA World Endurance Championship career | |||||||
| Debut season | 2018–19 | ||||||
| Racing licence |  FIA Platinum | ||||||
| Car number | 8 | ||||||
| Former teams | Toyota Gazoo Racing | ||||||
| Starts | 8 | ||||||
| Championships | 1 (2018–19) | ||||||
| Wins | 5 | ||||||
| Poles | 4 | ||||||
| IndyCar Series career | |||||||
| 2 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Team(s) | No. 66 (Arrow McLaren SP) | ||||||
| 2020 position | 31st | ||||||
| Best finish | 21st (2017) | ||||||
| First race | 2017 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
| Last race | 2020 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
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| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |||||||
| Years | 2018–2019 | ||||||
| Teams | Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH | ||||||
| Best finish | 1st (2018, 2019) | ||||||
| Class wins | 2 (2018, 2019) | ||||||
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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. As of 2024, Alonso is the only driver to win both the F1 World Drivers' Championship and the World Endurance Championship, even if the World Sportscar Championship is included in WEC.[2][3]
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 (this time with Honda engines) 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. Alonso moved to Aston Martin for the 2023 season, where he saw great success at the beginning of the season, with six podium finishes in the first eight races. 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.
Alonso has won 32 Grands Prix, earned 22 pole positions, and scored 2298 points from 382 starts. He is currently the only Spanish Formula One driver to have won the World Championship. Until Carlos Sainz's maiden win at the 2022 British Grand Prix, Alonso was the only Spaniard to win a Formula One Grand Prix.[3] 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.
- ^ "Fernando Alonso signs to Aston Martin for 2023 on multi-year contract". formula1.com. 1 August 2022. Archived from the original on 1 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Past Seasons - FIA World Endurance Championship". www.fiawec.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Standings". Formula 1® - The Official F1® Website. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2023.