Fernando Alonso will almost certainly break one of Michael Schumacher’s records on Sunday.
How competitive Alpine will be on the street in Baku can be answered at the Azeri Grand Prix free practice on Friday. What we already know, however, is that whatever happens on the eighth race weekend of the season, Fernando Alonso will definitely be leaving to pass one of Michael Schumacher’s records to the past.
The two-time world champion It delivers outstanding performance in F1 for 40 years, which is unlikely to have been accepted by many when he made his debut in the royal category at the 2001 Australian Grand Prix at the age of 19. As well as the fact that he will be a member of the field more than 20 years later.
A The Baku race will be exactly 21 years, 3 months and 8 days after Alonso’s debut in Melbourne, so if the Spanish driver starts this weekend, he will officially become the owner of the longest Formula 1 career, passing the Michael Schumacher record for the past. The German pilot’s career lasted exactly 21 years and 3 months.
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Interestingly, the two pilots who fought the battle that killed for the 2006 World Championship alike got so far that they missed a few years near the end of their careers: Schumacher three, Alonso two.
By the way, Alonso could break the record for most F1 grand prize starts (349) held by Kimi Räikkönen this year, to be exact at the Singapore Grand Prix, if he doesn’t miss a race by then. The oldest F1 participant, however, won’t even reach the top of Alonso, who turned 41 in July, and it would be surprising if anyone ever overthrew him. It is held by Louis Chiron, who took part in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix at the age of 55 and 292 days.
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