Alonso has revealed who is his only driver friend in F1 and this is why

F1 is a very individual sport where each driver fights against other members of the grid to be the best. And where even teammates are considered the first rivals of any driver. This makes making friends at the grill very complicated. And Fernando Alonso pointed it out in the recent documentary ‘DAZN’, called Fernando. Revealed’, wherein Fernando Alonso He relives in pictures his best moments, as well as the hardest moments of his career.

“As for pilot friends, I would say my only friendship is with Giancarlo Fisichella,” the Spaniard pointed out about his partner in the courses 2005 and 2006 with Renaultyears in which the driver from Oviedo achieved his two F1 world titles.

Fernando Alonso made it clear that for so much chemistry developed between the two teammates, the figure of his boss at the time, Flavio Briatore, was really key.

“It rose thanks to Flavio Briatore, your card games, the trips to Kenya and Flavio’s house to do the preseason. You need a boss like Briatore who has that charisma and can unite the team. And there is my friendship with Fisichella,” said.

“Other than that, I might like or be cool with someone, but I wouldn’t go on vacation or skiing, I wouldn’t make plans.”argument.

What was Fisichella thinking?

Giancarlo, Fisichella He has already referred to his friendship with Fernando Alonso and the good atmosphere there at Renault when he took part in a Spanish team in remarks to Mundo Deportivo in 2018when they both drive in the World Endurance Championship.

“We shared two very nice years, winning the Constructors’ and Drivers’ World Championship with Fernando. There was an atmosphere in the team that I had never found in any other team. We were friends and we got along very well, we always worked together and sometimes an hour before the races we played cards”, Fisichella argued with MD at the time, recalling their training weeks at Briatore’s house in Kenya, where they had a lot of fun, in addition to the card games they played during the season.

“He and I played against Flavio Briatore and one of the physios. But we did some ‘trick’ or something,” He admitted with a laugh when discussing his and Fernando Alonso’s traps against Flavio. “Sometimes I realize. Flavio is not happy at all”he added between laughs.

Fisichella rejected Massa’s version of Alonso as a teammate

At the time, when Fisichella was asked about the criticism launched by Felipe Massa about Fernando Alonso’s attitude towards him when they were both together at Ferrari, the Italian was forceful: “I can’t say anything about that because with him we won everything and we did very well. We have a great relationship and we started a great friendship there. That’s why I say that for me it’s not like that.”