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THE CALLED PHENOMENON FERNANDO ALONSO
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Although the results of championship 2004 are underneath their own expectation, Fernando Alonso revolutionized the world of Formula 1. More than very a well conceptuado pilot in paddock, considered by many analysts like a future champion, the Spanish finally gave reasons for joy for the motoring of his nation. During diverse years, the torcedores filled automobile race tracks like Jerez and Barcelona, but without dreaming about great results for their compatriots in the track.
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Alonso celebrates its first podio of F1 obtained in the GP of Malaysia of 2003. The day Saturday marked the best time in the classification
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Fernando Alonso arrived very “crude” at F1, even until for the “youthful register” of the last times Alonso just by did its debut in the Great Prize of Australia 2001 19 years! Same “haste” of the times of kart, when it has disputed his first race Its age? Hardly three years.Been born the 29 from 1981 July, in Oviedo, the passage of Fernando by kart was magnificent. Soon in his first official season (1988), Alonso gained the championship of the Asturias, with eight victories in eight races. And the performance continued in the next years. From 1989 to 1998, the pilot obtained 16 championships, even four nationals, Italian and a World-wide Junior, in 1996.But the thrown style was not its characteristic only in the tracks. In 1999, Alonso made debut in the concurred and quick Super Formula Nissan, in the team of the ex--pilot of F1, Adrian Fields. It was a project very daring, because the way of the majority of kartistas is often the F-3 or the F-Renault. With as much the result he was splendid. It gained the season, with six victories and nine pole positions in 14 races. Those results placed to Alonso in the Intercontinental Championship of Formula 3000, in the Astromega equipment, with support of the Telephone one, that now year sponsors to east Alonso, with the Renault.
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Youth and the little experience in circuits of F1 did not drain the Spanish, who surpassed in many occasions to Jarno Trulli
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With little experience in many tracks of the calendar, the Spanish was one of the main names of the championship and conquered significant positions, like a victory in Spa and a second in Hungaroring. He finished in quarter in the classification. In the same year it knew Flavio Briatore, but the debut in the F1 happened with a car of the Minardi.With positive results considering the small structure of the Italian square, like the tenth position in the Great Prize of Germany, Alonso happened to pilot of tests of the Renault in the World-wide one. After a beneficial year of tester - even a total session in Jaguar and with the change of the holder Jenson Button for the BAR, the Spanish gained an official place in the French equipment.
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Fernando fights with the multiple champion Michael Schumacher. The German always has praised to the Spanish promise
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Immediately in his second GP with the Renault (Malaysian), Alonso obtained his first Pole Position and finished the race in third party. That was first pole and podium of the Renault in its return to Formula 1. In the following tests, in spite of some common errors to the conductive young people, Alonso continued until obtaining “unpublished” results for its equipment, even the victory in the Great Prize of Hungary. In this occasion, also it entered in the history of F1 like the youngest winner, with 22 years and 26 days. The previous mark of 22 years and 104 days, was reached about Brushes McLaren, in Sebring, 1959. In the end it closed the season in sixth, with 55 points and four podiums, and until a very rewarding secondly place in Barcelona.
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Championship 2004 has not been what waited for Fernando. For the 2005 it will have to do to him in front of his new companion, Fisichella
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In championship 2004, Alonso suffered with many difficulties. More abandonments by mechanical problems, the thrown conduction gave rise to a great sequence of errors in its conduction and the growth of Jarno Trulli within the Renault. But in second half, the Spanish conquered great results. For 2005, its position already this guaranteed. And, for many, the world-wide title begins the way towards a. In the conception of the “Alonsomanía” and the directors of the Renault they have certainty that already arose a rival around Michael Schumacher.
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