Biography of Fernando Alonso

Prince of circuits

July 29, 1981 Fernando Alonso Díaz, the third youngest rider ever to take part in a Formula one race, was born in Oviedo, capital of Asturias region of North-Western Spain the day July 29, 1981. Son of José Luis, mechanic at a factory producing explosives, and of Ana Maria, employed in a department store. The passion for cars comes directly from his father, an amateur kart racer. José Luis builds a kart intended to Lorraine, sister of Fernando. However, the latter to be struck by an interest in the sport. The family goes along with the interest of the young pilot in grass, and even the onset of economic difficulties, Fernando is revealed in short a small sample. Starting in 1990, with his kart, won numerous races that attract many sponsors. In the year 1998, a former driver of Minardi's House from the opportunity for Fernando to experience the thrill of entering into the cockpit of a Formula One. The result is amazing, the pilot just seventeen matches the more experienced and perhaps future colleague Marc Gene. Adrián Campos, is the name of his talent agent, which forwards directly to the young person in the agony of the competitions of the Championships. Alonso runs with a Nissan and the very first championship gets the win. The stable of Faenza, she boasts of being the discoverer, employs it as test-driver. We are now in 1999 and the new sample arrives to Formula 3000. Fernando competes directly with characters that they too will have glory in the engine in the future, one above all Mark Webber. During the first championship however the young driver does not shine as it should, but manages to bounce back during the second half of the season and to finish fourth in the standings. In 2001, only two years have passed and the Minardi does begin the Iberian pilot at the start of the season during the Grand Prix of Australia. The first season was disappointing, not so much for demerits of Alonso as because the team Minardi Racing is not up to the competition. Fernando stands still for her behavior and especially for his driving style attracting the attention of some top teams. So in 2002 Fernando Alonso is now under the auspices of the well-known "surveyor" Flavio Briatore, who spent that season as a test driver. The stable is the French Renault, and the new hire is committed to assert themselves, in fact at the end of the Championship manager cuneese promotes it as a second drive instead of using an expert at Italian Jarno Trulli, Jenson Button English other "discovery" of Mr Briatore. The 2003 is a see-saw season, made of small achievements and defeats. On 23 March Alonso WINS Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying, on 6 April is leading a bad accident at Interlagos in Brazil, while on 24 August in Hungary won his first race. During season during the Grand Prix of Europe is involved in a controversy arose about the development of a racing action, with the Scottish driver David Coulthard and his stable. Fernando ended the season in sixth place earning a total of four podiums. In the year 2004 without winning any race: season flat; the expected results of slow in coming. The car is not as excellent as it should be, relations with the team will intensify to the point that the companion of Pesaro, with whom he leaves at the end of the season the team of heated arguments. Won the fourth place in the League. The 2005 is the year of the big breakthrough. This time the car is really fast and reliable. Already the first race held in Australia on March 6 and is characterized by a heavy rain, is taken from her new "partner"; the Italian Giancarlo Fisichella. Alonso is placed on the lowest rung of the podium but from the beginning, starting with the next Grand Prix, a series of three wins from as many three pole positions. Also in Germany, in France and then wins the European Grand Prix held at the Nürburgring circuit in Germany. The rivals of the season are the McLarens of Pablo Montoya and Finn Kimi Räikkönen. Overwhelmed by the early-season advantage of Fernando, attempt to recover the gap, but now Fernando is projected towards the final victory comes the 25 September with two games to spare after the closing of the games. He won a total of seven races and a total of 19 Grands Prix. Massage well 15 podium finishes. In China, the world's last race, the Renault thanks to his latest winning tail strike, also for the first time in the constructors championship triumphs. The now acclaimed Prince of Asturias, honorary title conferred on him that is comparable to the 2006 Championship milanesissimo Ambrogino d'Oro, has as main rivals scuderia cars, led by a very fierce Michael Schumacher, whose gregarious Brazilian Felipe Massa. Fernando Alonso wins the first race anyway. Fighting prejudice, when he doesn't win, podium. The world circus arrives in Europe on 23 April and the Iberian pilot already has a substantial advantage in the standings, although subsequent race are won from German to Ferrari. Despite the comeback Ferrari Alonso WINS in may at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain and Monaco Grand Prix; It reiterates in June before at Silverstone in England then in Montreal, Canada. Redheads are always on the rise, the Renault is penalized for the usual quibbles of regulation. Briatore raises his voice, face the Federation wanted to "encourage" Maranello. Alonso is penalized several times in the course of successive Grands Prix. The day October 22, 2006 at Interlagos in Brazil there is the ultimate test of the world; Fernando Alonso is still ahead of Schumacher by ten lengths. Administers the advantage and accomplice a unlucky race of German, WINS his second world title by climbing the second step of the podium. Even the manufacturer's title remains the prerogative of the French stable. In 2007 the Iberian pilot compete for McLaren's colors, thanks to an agreement signed earlier. Second to the first race and won the next one at Sepang in Malaysia. Vince then in Munich on 27 May, then at the European Grand Prix on July 22 always on the Nürburgring in Germany and at the end of summer on the circuit of Monza Brianza. The season is marked by a scandal in which McLaren and its drivers are involved. Are alleged to have copied and illegally spied on their opponents. The pilots come up clean, the team is penalized. Alonso does not bear the "second help" fought Luis Hamilton and McLaren boss Ron Dennis is en route with. At the end of the season, placing third and divorces by English back in the arms of Dad Flavio in Renault. The 2008 season is uphill, the car does not go. Only WINS in Singapore at night on 28 September and 12 October the Grand Prix at Fuji. Finishes fifth; the Championship is won by the hated former colleague Luis Hamilton who steals the title of youngest world champion. In 2009 Alonso is still in Renault at the side, as in the previous season, by Nelson Piquet Jr. Brawn Gp, a new stable was born from nothing, dominates the season. Fernando is not beyond a third place finish in Singapore on September 27, 2009. Briatore is removed from the world of Formula one circus, accused of giving team orders in spite of regulation. Alonso loses his mentor and also disappointed by the performance of the car leaves the French stable. World 2010 season Fernando Alonso signing to drive a Ferrari.