Thursday, September 9, 2010

All About Fernando Alonso

All About Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso Profile

Fernando Alonso Díaz (familiarly called Nando, born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, July 29, 1981, age 29 years) was a Formula One driver from Spain. He had become the youngest world champion in the history of F1 title in 2005 at the age of 24 years and 59 days, so the 33-year-old record owned by Emerson Fittipaldi aged 25 years and 273 days when it won the world title in 1972. Lewis Hamilton's record was broken on the 2008 racing season. Alonso also had become the youngest driver ever to win the grand prix and took pole position, each at the Hungarian Grand Prix series in 2003 and the Malaysian GP in 2003, before solved by Sebastian Vettel at the Italian GP in 2008. It is also the first F1 world champion from Spain.

Alonso started the race with karting at the age of 3 years. He then won the karting championship in Spain in 1994-1997, and is the world karting champion in 1996. He entered the world of Formula 1 in 2001 with the Minardi team, and moved to Renault as test driver next year. Alonso started the 2003 season and then "grade" being the main drivers the French team. Having had time to "stop" in the McLaren team in 2007 season, then returned to Renault's Alonso for two seasons in 2008-2009, and since the 2010 season, Alonso's Italian team and then strengthening, Scuderia Ferrari. Income that he can be at Ferrari in 2010 season is estimated at 30 million Euros a year, and since the withdrawal of Kimi Räikkönen F1 event at the end of 2009, rising to Alonso's position "F1 drivers Expensive" for the 2010 season.

Personal

Fernando Alonso Diaz was born on July 29, 1981 in Oviedo, Spain. His father, Jose Luis Alonso, worked as a mechanical workshop, which also occasionally worked in a quarry. While his mother worked as a cashier at a supermarket. Alonso is the second child of two brothers. Since childhood, Fernando Alonso has to know the ins and outs of racing world. He got his first karting at the age of three years. Alonso's father was actually going to give karting is for the brothers, but because Alonso is a woman's brother, he gently declined. He then gave his father the gift of karting to Fernando.

Fernando large and small study in simplicity. Even so, he would not forget it until today. He was far from swift glittering world of celebrities, or night life. In 1998, at the age of 17 years, he decided to move to England. There he lived, near the University of Oxford, together with some friends also from Spain. Together with his friends, Alonso spent much time chatting and playing with computers. The reason Alonso is moving to England because he wanted the atmosphere of a quiet environment away from the noisy uproar and the media.

In the matter of food, Alonso liked the food that contains no salt. While in terms of music, Alonso liked the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with their hits, By the Way. In terms of communicating, Fernando Alonso is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and French.

In 2005, after he made sure ourselves as F1 world champion, Fernando Alonso and then decided to move to Switzerland. There he lived next door to Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa. Among the F1 paddock, Alonso is a master of the game of poker. Pokernya teammates in the F1 paddock was Robert Kubica and Giancarlo Fisichella. Alonso is married to Raquel del Rosario, who is the lead singer of the band from Spain, El Sueno de Morfeo. Their marriage was conducted on November 17, 2006 in Spain.

In addition to the above matters, Fernando Alonso is also beginning to invest in the business world. The first business she was doing was an amateur karting team named Alonso-Kart. There but as a racing team, Alonso-Kart also sells various types of karting chassis and spare parts. Destination Alonso Alonso-Kart is established solely to help the young drivers who want a true racing hobby.

Sponsorship and charity

Alonso, since he became F1 world champion (and he is an F1 world champion only until recently from Spain), and then was appointed ambassador of one of Oxford University, to promote the university's new field of study that is "Motorsport for Business" for social science , and "Aerodinamicist Technic" inexact science program. Every year he was financing the 12 best students from around the world, who also is a true F1 fans to lecture at Oxford.

Alonso also has several private sponsors, one of which is Mutua Madrilena, which is a banking company from Spain. He was also appointed as one of UNICEF ambassador since late 2007. And this at once makes it more popular among children. Every time Alonso met with impoverished children from the countries left behind, he will members of the children of a replica F1 car he ever drove.

Early career

While still a child, Alonso participated in karting competition in many events throughout Spain, with support from his father, who does have experience in the field of mechanics. But then Alonso families experiencing financial difficulties to finance his racing career, but with the successful results of Alonso's victory to achieve, some sponsors and then came forward and helped Alonso balapannya career. Alonso wins karting championships and then Spain four times in a row in the junior category, between 1993 to 1996 and became world champion in karting Go Karting Junior World Cup in 1996. He also successfully won the Inter-A Spain and Italy in 1997 and again won the Spanish Inter-A in 1998 at a time when he also won the European Go Karting Championship.

Former Minardi team driver Adrián Campos gave Alonso a later test on the real race car in October 1998. After undergoing a three-day test in Albacete circuit, Alonso finally managed to equal the record of Marc Gene who is also one of the drivers built Campos.Campos without thinking again and then immediately sign Alonso for the race with the team. In one of the races are also held at Albacete, Alonso finally win the race for the first time. Alonso then won the championship Euro Open Movistar by Nissan at the end of the year 1999.Ia won championships with the difference of one point over rival Manuel Giao. Alonso then also managed to get a free trial session with the Minardi F1 team, with the result 1.5 seconds faster on the other Minardi driver in these tests. Alonso F1 test with Minardi at Fiorano also held a private test circuit Ferrari. Action with Minardi and then pulled some Ferrari crew, one of them is Ross Brawn and Jean Todt.

Year 2000 Alonso moved on to Formula 3000 International, who was then the last event before the young drivers get into F1. Alonso joined Team Astromega, and became the youngest driver to race in F3000 event at that time. Alonso can not record the points until the seventh race of the season in 2000, but in the last two series he managed to record a podium, and the peak is when he won at Spa-Francorchamps. Alonso's position in the F3000 standings that season is behind Bruno Junqueira at P4, Nicolas Minassian and Mark Webber.

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