Profile of Fernando Alonso

Name: Fernando Alonso

D.O.B: 29/07/1981

Height: 1.71 m

Weight: 68 Kg

Nationality: Spanish

Car No: 1

Current Team: Renault (Till 31 Dec 2006)

Team For 2007: Vodafone McLaren Mercedes

Statistics Of Fernando Alonso

World Championship wins: 2


World champion: 2005,2006


Number of GP: 88


Victories: 15


Podiums: 37


In the points: 55


Pole positions: 15


Fastest laps: 8


Career points: 381.0



Points in 2006: 134





2006 World Champion



2005 World Champion



2004 Alonso ended the year a career-best fourth in the championship standings, scoring 59 points and four podiums



2001 Alonso was the third-youngest driver to start a F1 race when he made his debut with Minardi.


2000 Fourth in the International Formula 3000 championship with Team Astromega. Won in Belgium.


1999 Euro Open champion with Nissan.


1998 Runner-up in the European Kart Championship.


1997 Spanish Kart Champion.


1996 Spanish and World Kart Champion.


1994 Spanish Kart Champion.

Young fernando alonso learns to race:

During the first two years of driving the kart, Fernando and his family thought of it as just a game, something the young boy would do to pass time and amuse himself. At 6 years old, however, Jos began to notice his son's aptitude for racing, and so he fine-tuned the kart to get it ready for competitions. By 1988, Alonso had begun dominating the junior kart leagues, going from circuit to circuit on the weekends and after school.

Fernando dominates in catalan championship:

By the time he was 12, Fernando's budding career as a kart driver had become so serious that his family could no longer afford to send him to races far away from their home, or even afford the materials required by Fernando's more powerful cars. Thus, the Alonsos sought support and, after Fernando dominated a race in the Catalan Championship, they found a team willing to take on the young driver. From then on, Alonso graduated to more serious racing as IAME -- a famous world karting name -- took charge of his career. Alonso won the Junior Spanish Championship in 1994 and then began traveling throughout Europe, competing in ultra-competitive karting leagues. To offset the cost of his travels (despite the help from IAME), Alonso earned cash as a mechanic for drivers even younger than himself.

Fernando alonso moves to formula nissan:

In 1996, Alonso became the World Junior Karting champion after taking home several wins, and then won the Spanish and Italian legs of the championship the following year. In the meantime, former Formula 1 driver Adrian Campos had taken notice of Alonso's talents and gave the lad a chance to graduate to Formula 1 racing. By 1998, Fernando got a handle on racing with gear shifting and, in 1999, he graduated to the Formula Nissan circuit. fernando alonso with astromegaAmazingly, it took no time for Alonso to learn the ropes of Formula Nissan, and he quickly dominated race after race. He won the league championship in his first year, and his managers decided to elevate him to the next step, Formula 3000, by 2000. With the Astromega team, Alonso accomplished and learned a lot, though he did not dominate as he had in previous leagues. Still, his performance in 2000 was enough to allow him to move on to Formula 1, the world stage of racing.