The presence of sportier models in the Renault line-up would give the French automaker a better opportunity to capitalize on its Formula One prowess, having won two back-to-back world championships with Fernando Alonso, translating these efforts to its production cars is a moot point because Renault ’ s lineup is lacking in the sports car department.

An almost certain win was denied at Imola after a driveshaft failure, but he won the other two races, putting him within 22 points of leader Alonso.

Alonso won four Spanish championships back-to-back in the junior category, between 1993 and 1996 and the Junior World Cup in 1996.

In his second race, again at Albacete, Alonso won for the first time.

The following year, it hosted the final round of the Formula One championship, in which the newly crowned world champion Fernando Alonso won and claimed the constructor's title for Renault F1.

Fernando Alonso won the second Bahrain Grand Prix for Renault in 2005, and then became the first repeat winner of the Middle Eastern race in 2006 ( again for Renault ), after a thrilling race-long battle with Michael Schumacher.

Aged 21 years and 74 days, Vettel broke the record set by Fernando Alonso at the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix by 317 days as he won in wet conditions at Monza.

Alonso also finished third in 2007, with two further second places in 2010 and 2012, where he finished behind the Williams of Spanish speaking Pastor Maldonado who won from pole, this was the first win and pole in a Grand Prix for a Venezulean driver and Williams ' first win since the 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix and the teams first Spanish Grand Prix win and pole since 1997.

Two Spanish drivers have won the Spanish Grand Prix ; Carlos de Salamanca in 1923 and Alonso in 2006, with Spanish speaking Juan Manuel Fangio winning in 1951 as well as Maldonado in 2012.

With Alonso, Renault won both the driver's and constructor's championships in 2005 and 2006.

In, for the first time, the Brazilian GP decided the World Championship, won by Fernando Alonso.

2005 and 2006 Formula One World Champion, Fernando Alonso, won the karting Junior World Cup in 1996 with a Parilla engine made by IAME.

Later that day, Alonso won the British Grand Prix in his current Ferrari F1 car.

While playing for Spain, Alonso has won the Euro 2008, the Euro 2012 and the 2010 World Cup, and he has also represented his country in the Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup.

On 23 June 2012, Alonso won his 100th cap for Spain in the quarter-final of the Euro 2012 against France: he celebrated the occasion by scoring both of Spain's goals to send them into the semi-finals.

His father, Periko Alonso, won the La Liga twice in successive seasons with Real Sociedad and a third time after he moved to Barcelona.

Consequently, Alonso's goals marked a stroke of luck for a Liverpool fan who won £ 25, 000 from a £ 200 bet on Alonso scoring from within his own half.

Liverpool won on penalties without his help but Alonso still earned his first FA Cup winners ' medal.

Despite a successful group phase, where Spain won all their games, Alonso did not achieve international glory as the team were beaten by the eventual finalists France in the first knockout stage of the tournament.

It was won by Renault's Fernando Alonso from pole, becoming at the time the youngest ever driver to win a Grand Prix, beating the previous record of Bruce McLaren.

Ruttman was the first Indianapolis 500 winner to participate in a Formula One event beyond Indy and his 1952 Indy 500 win earned him the distinction of being the youngest driver to win a round of the World Championship, an honor he held until Fernando Alonso won the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix.

The 2006 Turkish Grand Prix was won by Felipe Massa ( Ferrari ), who led from start to finish, Fernando Alonso ( Renault F1 ) came in second and 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher in third.

Sebastian Vettel won the 2011 event for Red Bull Racing, ahead of team-mate Mark Webber and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.

The race was won by polesitter and championship leader Fernando Alonso for the Renault team.

Montoya had a solid race at Monaco, inheriting second place 14. 5 seconds behind championship leader Fernando Alonso after Räikkönen and Mark Webber went out with engine problems on lap 50.

The race drivers are Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, with Davide Rigon as the third / reserve driver.

The following race, the, saw Alonso clinch the Drivers ' Championship, after finishing third behind Montoya and Räikkönen.

Chasing down Alonso during the final stages of the race, he set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap, finishing only 1. 8 seconds behind the Spaniard.

At the, a bad choice of strategy and a mistake from Räikkönen in qualifying ( 8th ) saw the McLarens get caught in traffic in the early part of the race allowing Michael Schumacher and Alonso to get away at the front.

During the race he got up to 2nd and kept pace with Alonso, however he retired during a safety car period after a failed heat shield led to a wiring loom inside the car catching fire.

The running order was Alonso, Räikkönen, Schumacher until the second set of pitstops where Räikkönen was demoted to third by Schumacher, a position he held until the end of the race.

Former Minardi F1 driver Adrián Campos gave Alonso his first test in a race car in October 1998.

Campos signed Alonso to race for him in the 1999 Spanish Euro Open MoviStar by Nissan series.

Alonso did not score a point until the seventh race of the year, but in the final two rounds he took a second place and a victory, enough for him to end the season fourth overall behind Bruno Junqueira, Nicolas Minassian and Mark Webber.

On lap 67, Takuma Sato overtook McLaren-Mercedes's Fernando Alonso, to cheers around the circuit, just after overtaking Ralf Schumacher and having overtaken Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen earlier in the race.

He held off Alonso for much of the race until the third sector and went on to finish 6th.

Other notable occasions in Budapest include first Grand Prix wins for Damon Hill in 1993, Fernando Alonso ( in 2003 ), the first Grand Prix winner from Spain, who also became the youngest ever driver to win a GP, Jenson Button in an incident-packed race in 2006, and Heikki Kovalainen in 2008.

Since 2003 the race has been well attended thanks to success of Fernando Alonso.

In Australia, he qualified on pole, but was overtaken on the run to the first corner by Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen after a safety car period ; he was running 5th in the race, before his engine blew at the last corner on the last lap.

Following the retirement of leading drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Fernando Alonso, he went on to win the race by just over half a minute from Pedro de la Rosa and Nick Heidfeld.

Heidfeld retired from the race with a transmission problem, as Alonso moved in on Montoya and Barrichello got closer to Trulli.

Michael Schumacher cruised to the finish line to win his fourth race of the year, with Button in 2nd, and Montoya holding on to the final podium spot ahead of Alonso.

Alonso did break the record for youngest driver to lead a race ( the previous record having remained since 1951 ).

Alonso then pitted on the 35th lap, freeing Barrichello, who did not pit until the 38th lap and re-entered the race ahead of Alonso.

In Bahrain, however, in both Saturday practice and the race, Massa resumed his tendency to spin, narrowly missing Fernando Alonso, the eventual winner of the race.