Fernando Alonso Díaz (born July 29, 1981 inOviedo,Spain) is aFormula One racing driver. He is fromSpain. He won his first F1 title in 2005 and then became the youngest ever Formula 1 World Champion at the age of 24.
Alonso drove until 2006 in Formula 1 for the Renault F1-Team, with which he achieved the driver world championship in the year 2005 and had a major part to play in the Renault F1 Team winning the constructor championship in the same year.
The Drivers' Championship was won again by Fernando with Renault F1 for the second year in a row in 2006 (interestingly, had Alonso not become the youngest World Champion in 2005, he would have still achieved this feat with his 2006 victory) edging outMichael Schumacher of Scuderia Ferrari by 13 points. Renault also retained the Constructor's Championship, beating Ferrari by only five points.
In 2007 Alonso joined Team VodafoneMcLaren-Mercedes and entered a four-way battle for the World Championship with his team-mate, therookie Lewis Hamilton, and Ferrari driversKimi Räikkönen andFelipe Massa. Halfway through the season, with wins in Sepang and Monaco, Alonso trails his rookie team-mate by 14 points. The second half of the season should prove interesting.In the second part Alonso won at Europe and Italy but missed the title by 1 point.
