Fernando Alonso Championship Campaigns
Two-time Formula One World Champion and endurance racing legend.
Fernando Alonso Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [feɾˈnando aˈlonso ˈði.aθ] ; born 29 July 1981) is a Spanish racing driver who competes in Formula One for Aston Martin. Alonso has won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 2005 and 2006 with Renault, and has won 32 Grands Prix across 21 seasons. In endurance racing, Alonso won the 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship and is a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Toyota as well as a winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2019 with WTR. He is the only driver to have won both the Formula One World Drivers' Championship and the World Sportscar/World Endurance Drivers' Championship.
- Driver Role
- Lead Driver
- Team Affiliation
- McLaren Racing
- Championships with Team
- 0
- Best Championship Finish
- 2nd Place (2012)
- First Race for McLaren
- Australian Grand Prix 2007
- Last Race for McLaren
- Brazilian Grand Prix 2018
Lore & Background
Alonso returned to McLaren under Honda power in 2015. He remained with the team until the end of 2018, resulting in limited success, before his first retirement.
In Their Own Story
At Suzuka, rain hammered against the visor as the Honda power unit screamed—a high-pitched whine that signaled mechanical death rather than velocity. Inside the cockpit, Fernando Alonso gripped the wheel with white-knuckled desperation, his eyes darting across telemetry screens that offered no hope of redemption. The crowd's roar faded into a dull hum; they watched their hero wrestling a ghost machine, pushing a chassis that physically refused to match his pace. He knew the lap times lived in his hands, but beneath him, the machinery remained stubbornly silent.
Reader's Guide
Alonso's last race for McLaren was the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Did You Know?
- Alonso is the only driver to have won both the Formula One World Drivers' Championship and the World Sportscar/World Endurance Drivers' Championship.
- Alonso won the 2001 Race of Champions Nations' Cup.
- Alonso has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2005.
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