WHY FERNANDO ALONSO BELIEVES HE WILL GALVANISE THE ALPINE ATTACK IN F1
The first time Fernando Alonso was at Renault he drove for the team for four seasons and won two world titles. The second time it was a marriage of convenience, a two-year stop-gap that yielded just a couple of wins and one of Formula 1’s greatest scandals with the controversy of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
Sequels are tough enough but the third part of a trilogy is particularly challenging. And as F1 waits for the third act of ‘Alonso at Renault’ to begin in 2021, a pragmatic prediction would be that it will be difficult for this stint to even match the success of 2008 and 2009 (minus ‘Crashgate’), let alone replicate the glory days of the early years of Alonso’s career.
Alonso signed his deal to reunite with Renault out of a mutual need for one another. Renault was too unconvincing in the F1 midfield to persuade one of the leading drivers for a rival team to
