Fernando Alonso was in high place again this past weekend at French Grand Prix. The Asturian driver was sixth in the Paul Ricard and he himself taught at the end of his joy at the position attained, just behind a CCarlos Sainz that he once again made a great comeback and that again the messages that reached him via radio were not his hands-on driving skills.
“I’m happy, it went well, we did the best we could do. In the end we were a comfortable sixth – his best result in the twelve Grand Prix races he played was 5th in Britain two grands prix ago – I hope we have many normal weekends because we finish fifth or sixth every Sunday,” he told the microphones of DAZN.
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Fernando knows how to manage the race like no one else – “I’ve run 350 races, I know what I’m doing sometimes” – and he finally achieved another challenge in F1, by becoming the driver with most laps completed in Formula 1, surpassing the record I had until Sunday Kimi Raikkonenafter being the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan with the pilot with the longest trajectory and then Silverstone to the driver with the most kilometers traveled, 92,684, not to mention that last season he was the driver on the grid who made the most number of overtakes during the F1 World Championship with his Alpine.
After 21 seasons in the ‘Circus’ of F1, since it started in 2002 with a minardi and after completing 53 turns in the layout of Paul Ricard, Fernando Alonso became the F1 driver with the most laps completed: 18,672 laps, surpassing the Finn’s 18,621 as of this Sunday Kimi Raikkonenretired last year, after being active for 20 seasons in F1.
Some records that the double Asturian world champion will continue to increase in the coming races and in the coming seasons, if, apparently, the next exercise will continue with the controls of an Alpine. ‘magic’ will be 41 next July 29
THE OTHER RECORDS TO REACH BY FERNANDO ALONSO
After becoming the F1 driver with the most completed laps, Fernando Alonso is close to surpassing other historical records, such as being the driver with the most Grand Prix Contests (he is 2nd in the ranking with 348, compared to Kimi Räikkönen’s 353 , who leads this classification) and the driver with the most Grand Prix starts, with Fernando in second position with 346, for Kimi’s 350, again the Finn is the long shadow of the Asturian
Source: La Verdad

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