
As Formula 1’s most experienced driver in history, Fernando Alonso has seen it all. Racing for a backmarking minnow at Minardi, championship success and Crashgate controversy at Renault, a deleterious team-mate rivalry at McLaren and unsuccessful title bids at Ferrari.
The veteran’s second stint at McLaren featured a disastrous rekindling of the team’s legendary partnership with Honda, which yielded iconic success with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in the late 1980s and early 1990s.