Why Alonso has no plans to stop his F1 journey anytime soon
Fernando Alonso hasn’t won a world championship in 15 years, or a grand prix in the past eight seasons, yet he remains one of the best drivers ever to grace an F1 grid. As Alonso heads towards his 41st birthday, and the twilight of his career, OLEG KARPOV asks if there’s still time for one last hurrah – or maybe more?
Fernando Alonso is confused and even a little puzzled, but still up for the challenge. “Yes. Why?” he wonders when GP Racing asks him to add together five numbers to each other. He leans over the table to glance at them in our notes and returns to his initial sitting position in three seconds with a playful smile.
“336,” he says.
Here’s your answer, Fernando. That’s the exact number of his grand prix entries (including three non-starts) before the 2022 season, as we speak on a cool evening in Bahrain during the last test before F1’s new era begins at the same venue in a week’s time: 17 with Minardi, 106 in two spells with Renault combined and 95 during another two at McLaren, plus 96 with Ferrari and 22 with Alpine last year.
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