🇪🇸 Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso is an elite professional racing driver at the Platinum level of FIA grading, competing in Formula 1 for Aston Martin. He has raced 26 seasons across Formula 1, the World Endurance Championship, IndyCar and IMSA, accumulating 441 Formula 1 starts, eight WEC starts and competing in endurance racing in a shared-driver prototype class alongside solo single-seater campaigns.[1]

Alonso won the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship twice, in 2005 and 2006 with Renault. In endurance racing he won the 2018 WEC drivers' championship with Toyota Gazoo Racing, taking five victories across the season, and claimed a further WEC win in 2019 as part of the team's back-to-back manufacturers' title. Across all series he has recorded 39 wins and 116 podiums from 461 starts. In Formula 1 alone he has taken 32 victories and 106 podiums, achievements spread across two decades at a series that has run him against the strongest single-seater drivers of multiple generations.[2]

Alonso regularly races Lewis Hamilton, a generational driver and eight-time Formula 1 champion, and usually finishes behind him; he is closely matched with Kimi Räikkönen, an established professional and 2007 Formula 1 champion. He has finished ahead of Lando Norris, the 2025 Formula 1 champion, in 29 meetings and George Russell, a generational driver, in 28. He spent his strongest years at Renault, where he was one of 26 drivers to race for a team that won 35 races across the index, and his record reflects a sustained career at the highest level of motorsport across multiple disciplines and over multiple decades.