Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

1981-07-29

Place of Birth

Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Fernando Alonso

Biography

Fernando Alonso Díaz (born 29 July 1981) is a Spanish racing driver. He has won the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship twice in 2005 and 2006, the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2019, the 2018 and 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona. He was also runner-up in Formula 1 in 2010, 2012 and 2013, and took a third-place finish in 2007. In Formula 1, he has competed for Minardi, Renault (in which he was a two-time world champion), McLaren and Scuderia Ferrari, this being his team from 2010 to 2014, year in which he left Ferrari to return to McLaren from 2015 until 2018. After two years away from F1, he returned with Alpine F1 Team in 2021, and has since moved to Aston Martin from 2023 onwards.