Fernando Alonso’s huge numbers in Formula 1

Fernando Alonso He will go to Aston Martin in the 2023 season, so he will play another campaign in Formula 1 and will have the opportunity to continue expanding the historical numbers that keep him among the best drivers of all time in this modality. This is the Asturian winner of the ‘Great Circus’.

2 WORLD TITLES

This is his great masterpiece, the ones conquered in 2005 and 2006 with the Renault team. Alonso is one of the sixteen drivers in history who have managed to repeat the title, so far, and one of the thirty-four who have achieved the great dream of every driver: to become world champion.

32 WINNER

Alonso is the sixth driver in history with the most wins, behind Lewis Hamilton (103), Michael Schumacher (91), Sebastian Vettel (53), Alain Prost (51) and Ayrton Senna (41). His 32 victories are split between 17 with Renault, 11 with Ferrari and 4 with McLaren.

98 PODIUMS

One of his great challenges is to reach 100 podiums ahead of him, a figure reached by five men ahead of him in this statistic: Lewis Hamilton (188), Michael Schumacher (155), Sebastian Vettel (122), Alain Prost (106) and Kimi Raikkonen (103). Alonso is sixth in this historical statistic with 98. He achieved 44 with Ferrari, 42 with the Renault structure and 12 with McLaren.

22 POLES

Alonso has accumulated 22 poles in Formula One. He is thirteenth in history in this statistic, four from the top10 closed by Mika Hakkinen with 26. He achieved 16 at Renault, 4 at Ferrari and 2 at McLaren. The latter was built in Germany 2012 with the ‘Scuderia’.

23 FAST LAPS

He also has 23 fastest laps, which is why he is joint tenth with Juan Manuel Fangio and Nelson Piquet. If he gets one more he will enter the absolute top 10 and match Niki Lauda’s 24, ninth in this statistic. He achieved 10 with Renault, 8 with Ferrari and 5 with McLaren, the team with which he achieved the last one in Hungary 2017.

2,021 POINTS

This is a statistic with fewer historical comparison options, as the scoring system has been changed multiple times for the season and now multiple points are distributed. However, Alonso accumulates 2,021 and is the third driver in history in this section behind Lewis Hamilton (4,311.50) and Sebastian Vettel (3,077).

347 FIRST PRIZE

It’s a statistic that Alonso will command this year at a historic level. He has amassed 347 grand prizes played in Formula 1, the second best mark after the 350 that Kimi Raikkonen left the category with. In Italy, in three races, he should match the Finn and in Singapore, in four, surpass him.