Fernando Alonso muses on the lack of educated fans: “They don’t know much about F1”
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Fernando Alonso took F1 by storm when he took center stage with Minardi and Renault. It was at that when the Michael Schumacher and Ferrari were at the peak of their powers. Anyone who challenged to come in their, was absolutely demolished. But Fernando Alonso, with his bullish charm and feisty attitude, had different ideas, as he had set his sights on ending this dominance.
The great Ferrari legend had 5 consecutive drivers’ titles to his name but during his time, Fernando Alonso had become a nuisance for Schumacher and eventually dethroned him in 2005 and followed up with another championship in 2006. The Spaniard had everyone awestruck with the kind of performances that he was putting in week in and week out.
But, unfortunately, he was not able to replicate those sort of performances in his time with Ferrari and McLaren. This brought in a lot of criticism from the fans and the perception around him changed since the results were not there to show for all the talent. Now, that the Spaniard is back in F1 with Alpine, the expectation and pressure have also returned.
Fernando Alonso opens up about the lack of culture in F1 now
Fernando Alonso, in a recent interview talked about the lack of knowledge shown by these new fans. He said, “In 2007, maybe people had a perception of what I was as a driver or as a person. Then that changed when I was in Ferrari, I was a very nice fit in the Latin team and things like.”
“Now I think that the fans that we have now, there are new fans and in a way – and I don’t want to lack respect to them – but they don’t know much about Formula 1.”
“They just are more like a football kind of fan, where they just follow the results, whoever is winning does the best. And whoever is last is not Formula 1 level.”
“They don’t understand much about car performance and the package that you need. So you are on more of a rollercoaster kind of feeling, of perception, of what the people feel about you.”
Fernando Alonso has been top notch this season and could have been better had Alpine done a better job with his car. It’s about time that he gets due credit for that.
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