The season-opener in Bahrain setting the tone for the entire campaign as the victorious Alonso and Schumacher battled it out in the original duel of the desert.
At the halfway stage of the season, Alonso had dropped six points from a possible 90. In 2006, the Scuderia became as loud as the screaming V8 engines of the time in their attempts to etch Michael Schumacher/Ferrari into the F1 history books one final time.Īlonso and Renault had to be at their very best to stop the fallen giant from rebuilding all of its strength and they were. It would have been naive to think that Ferrari were going to continue to slip away quietly and reminisce through rose-tinted spectacles about the good old days. With Ferrari’s faltering Bridgestone tyres only proving useful to have at the farcical United States Grand Prix – the Scuderia’s only win in a disastrous season – and Kimi Raikkonen’s title aspirations blighted by McLaren’s reliability problems, Alonso and Renault’s early season dominance provided the sturdiest of platforms for history to be made and for an undisputed era to be ended. The German national anthem followed by the Italian national anthem haunted the dreams and nightmares of all non-Ferrari fans in the early 2000s, but an abrupt end to their reign of terror in 2005 allowed for a new dynamic duo to dominate the airwaves: Fernando Alonso and Renault.Īged 24 years and 58 days at the 2005 Brazilian Grand Prix, Alonso broke a long-standing, 33-year record previously held by Emerson Fittipaldi to become, at the time, Formula 1’s youngest-ever World Champion and, unequivocally, Spain’s first. There is arguably no better movie name more fitting when describing the career of one Fernando Alonso. The good, the bad and the ugly series takes a look back over the defining moments of some of the biggest names to race in Formula 1.
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