According to Motorsport.com, Fernando Alonso will be taking part in a two-day Pirelli tyre test on February 7-8, as Aston Martin push to get the double World Champion up-to-speed with the team. Whilst the test will be conducted using the 2022 cars, it will still give Alonso an excellent opportunity to work closely with his team before pre-season testing begins, when the 2023
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Double World Champion Fernando Alonso is seemingly very excited about the upcoming season, as the Spaniard prepares for his new life with Aston Martin. The veteran has switched from Alpine to the Silverstone-based team for 2023 to replace Sebastian Vettel, who brought his 15-year career to an end at the close of last season. Whilst Alonso has made
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Sebastian Vettel has been told that he isn’t in the “same class” as seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton, with journalist Peter Windsor having likened the German more to double World Champion Fernando Alonso. The four-time World Champion was an exceptional driver for the vast majority of his 15-year career at the pinnacle of motorsport, with
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Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa has revealed that working with Fernando Alonso at Ferrari was “quite difficult”, with the Brazilian admitting that the Maranello-based team were “splitting in the middle” when the Spaniard was there. During his eight-year spell at Ferrari, Massa raced alongside an elite line-up of team-mates, including, Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, and seven-time
MoreThe driver market was an interesting one last season, as the shock retirement of Sebastian Vettel forced teams to search for new drivers, as a domino effect began. Alonso announced over the summer break that he would be moving to Aston Martin to replace the retiring German, leading Pierre Gasly to replace him at Alpine
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Alpine’s 2022 season was full of highs and lows, as their awful reliability issues put a dampener on what was an impressive year for the French team. The team finished as the best of the rest behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes but Fernando Alonso was forced to retire from a shocking six races over
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Fernando Alonso is continuing to push the boundaries of what we know is possible in Formula 1, having signed a multi-year contract to move to Aston Martin for the 2023 season and beyond. The Spaniard initially retired from the sport after a disappointing spell with McLaren but was tempted back to F1 in 2021 with
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Double World Champion Fernando Alonso might want to look away at a recent statistic, with the Spaniard having retired from more races in the turbo-hybrid era than any other driver. Since the hybrid era began in 2014, luck hasn’t been on the 41-year-old’s side, with the Spanish driver having raced for some of the worst
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The Alpine driver pairing in 2022 turned toxic towards the end of the season, as Fernando Alonso became more and more frustrated at both Alpine and Esteban Ocon. The Spaniard was forced to retire from six races over the course of last season as Alpine struggled massively with reliability issues, while Ocon experienced better fortunes.
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Double World Champion Fernando Alonso believes Aston Martin will be in a position where they can “fight for the title” in “two, three years”, highlighting how confident the Spaniard is about the future of the Silverstone-based team. Alonso has switched to Aston Martin for the upcoming season after opting to replace four-time World Champion Sebastian
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