All of Fernando Alonso’s Formula 1 teams

The team Aston-Martin has made public the signing of Fernando Alonso for the 2022 season. In this way, at the age of 41, the Asturian driver will continue next season in Formula 1. He will do so with what will be the fifth team of his entire professional career in the ‘Great Circus’: Before, he became a member of the structures of Minardi, Renault, McLaren and Ferrari. In the cases of Renault and McLaren, at different stages.

2001: signed for Renault and debuted with Minardi

Alonso reached the highest category of world motorsports in 2001. Signed by Renault, he joined Minardi with the team where he debuted in the category, after the approval of the French team so that he could spend a year in one of teams at the bottom of the table. His best result in the 2001 season was tenth place at the German Grand Prix.

2002-2006: Renault bets on Alonso: two world titles

Renault kept Alonso on the payroll in 2002, albeit with test driver status. It wasn’t until 2003 that Flavio Briatore gave him an alternative as a starting driver. The Asturian responded in a big way to his first good chance to achieve results in Formula 1: he got four podiums in a year in which he won the Hungarian Grand Prix, his first victory in the category.

Sixth in the world that year, she improved on her 2004 performance with a fourth place finish. Although in 2005 when Renault gave him a car with a chance to win and Alonso did not disappoint: he won his first world title after a magical season with seven wins and fifteen podiums.

Alonso repeated the crown a year later, where he won again with the French team. There were another seven wins and seven second places to bid farewell to Renault as two-time world champion, through the door.

2007: difficult year at McLaren

Alonso announced before the end of the 2006 season that he would come to McLaren in 2007. In it he lived a year in which he fought for the title from the beginning to the end, even with a rare atmosphere in the team due to the struggle which he maintained throughout the season with Lewis Hamilton. The last race of the season, in Brazil, reached the two as the best candidates for victory, but Kimi Raikkonen with Ferrari took the portfolio from them.

Alonso finished third in the World Cup, in a year where he once again achieved big numbers. He achieved four victories, four second places and another four third places for a total of twelve podiums.

2008-2009: back to Renault

In this way, Alonso returned to Renault, where he played in the 2008 and 2009 seasons. He did it without a winning car and with fifth and ninth positions in the World Championship. In those two years, despite this, he achieved two victories in the tests in Singapore and in Japan in 2008, which he closed in second place in Brazil.

More complicated was the 2009 season, where he was battling between fifth and tenth place, on average, during the season. Despite this, Alonso did not leave empty-handed as he achieved third place in Singapore.

2010-2014: Ferrari’s dream

Alonso fulfilled one of his dreams when he signed for the 2010 season with the Ferrari team, where he stayed for six seasons. He failed to win the world title, but he won three runner-up finishes in 2010, 2012 and 2013.

The Spaniard emerged as Ferrari’s top driver during his time with the ‘Scuderia’, where he left his mark with several victories and podiums. He conquered five wins in his first year, another in 2011, three in 2012 and two in 2013. There are eleven in total, for forty-four podiums, although last year was more complicated for the Asturian, which is sixth in the world.

2015-2018: second spell at McLaren

In this way, Alonso returned to McLaren in 2015, a team where he stayed until 2018. Without a winning car, Alonso had the goal of fighting for podium positions throughout his stay with the British team, a goal that he achieved more regularly. in his senior year.

In fact, his tenth place at the World Championship in 2016 was his best result in his second spell in Woking. His best in four years was four fifth places.

2019-2020: commitment to other disciplines

Alonso took a break from Formula 1 between 2019 and 2020. He chose other disciplines, after having the opportunity in his last days at McLaren to participate in tests of other modalities.

In 2017 he participated in the 24 Hours of Indianapolis, while in 2018 he ran the 24 Hours of Daytona and the World Endurance Championship trials. After putting aside his link to Formula 1, that commitment increased to other disciplines.

In 2019, the work started in 2018 was completed. First, with a victory in Daytona at the beginning of the year, in a test belonging to the American Weather Tech Championship.

Although his big bet in that 2019 was to win the World Endurance Championship, which lasted two years and started in 2018. Teaming up at Toyota with Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, he was proclaimed world champion with two victories in 24 Hours of Le Mans , two more at the 6 Hours of Spa and another at the 1000 Miles of Sebring.

He also participated in the 24 Hours of Indianapolis for the second time. After his experience in 2017, Alonso did not qualify this time for the queen IndyCar event.

But he still has a challenge left in the second half of 2019: preparing for the Dakar Rally in 2020. Alonso spent the second half of that season facing the world’s toughest onslaught at the start of the year. With Marc Coma as co-driver, he was thirteenth.

His next challenge in 2020 is the 24 Hours of Indianapolis. However, they continue to fight him: he finished twenty-one, so this goal remains pending for him in the future.

However, 2020 also means that Alonso has caught the ‘bug’ of Formula 1 again. He spent the second half of the year as a test driver for Alpine, in place of Renault, and thus opened the doors for his returning

2021-2022: return with Alpine to Formula 1

That lap was confirmed in 2021, when Alonso became an official Alpine driver. The big bet is now 2022, with a regulation change that Alonso wants to take advantage of to fight for the world title.

It’s not possible, but Alonso has a chance to fight for a podium in these two years. He got one in Qatar at the end of 2021, the best result so far in this new phase. He finished tenth in the 2021 championship, a position he now occupies in 2022, with nine tests remaining before the end of the World Championship.

2023: signing for Aston Martin

They are the last ones you will face in that stage. This Monday it became official that Alonso is changing teams again for 2023. Aston Martin is his next challenge.