Fernando Alonso’s viral reaction to seeing his replica car from the Alcover carnival

F1 has experienced great growth in recent years among the youngest audiences worldwide, and this is noticeable not only in social networks and television audience data, but also in the daily or festival carnival-like moments. . In recent years, many floats or costumes dedicated to the Spanish pilots, Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz, have been seen in carnivals throughout Spain. But in Alcover, a group of youngsters have completely ‘played’ by creating a life-size replica of Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin.

This carnival troupe wants to recreate the Aston Martin team and take to the streets of this town of Alt Camp (Tarragona) of over 5,000 inhabitants for the traditional parade of carnival floats. They made it dance behind Alonso’s F1 replica, making multiple pit stops to change tires to the laughter and surprise of those in attendance.

This did not go unnoticed on social networks, where the image of changing the tires on Alonso’s car quickly went viral throughout Spain, even crossing our borders until it reached the eyes of the Aston Martin communication team , who did not hesitate. in response to the Catalan in said video.

Alonso’s reaction to this costume

The Aston Martin team did not hesitate to show the images to Fernando Alonso and made a video with the Asturian’s reaction to that troop, which won the first prize in the Alcover Costume Contest.

A month to build Alonso’s life-size car by hand

According to the ‘Diari de Tarragona’, who interviewed one of the members of said troupe, Marc Rodríguez, these young F1 fans took a month to create that replica car, against the clock. They made it using a total of 150 materials including steel, poriexpan and wood. To do this, they first looked up the actual dimensions of the car online, then they made the interior out of steel and made an assembly to install the wheels. And then they dedicated themselves to the creation of exterior wood and poriexpan. A work that went all over the world, and above all, that helped them have the most fun at the carnival.