It is already 15 years since Fernando Alonso’s debut as a pilot of the ‘Scuderia Ferrari’. The Asturian landed in the Italian team to replace the world champion Kimi Räikkönen, after completing two years in his second stage with Renault. The two -time champion of the world would begin the season as a bullet, by sitting at the top of the podium in its first Grand Prix with the Italian team, in the Sakhir International Circuit.
The beginning of the 2010 Bahrain GP of Formula 1.RV Racing Press
Although his weekend began with disappointment, classifying 0.35s behind his teammate Felipe Massa, Fernando turned him around in Sunday’s action. Alonso won his garage partner and rolled second until a failure in a spark plug stopped the Red Bull of leader Sebastian Vettel. Oviedo took advantage of it, quickly advanced to RB6 and won by 16.1s.
Alonso entered a historic list in Ferrari
The Asturian competitor, in addition to writing his name on the list of winners with the squad based in Maranello, the then number ‘5’ of the grill entered a select repertoire of pilots who had won in their first race with the ‘Scuderia’.
With her feat at the beginning of the 2010 season, Alonso is still the last sprinter to win her first Grand Prix with Ferrari. Sebastian Vettel (3rd), Charles Leclerc (5th) and the most recent Lewis Hamilton (10th), failed to imitate what Alonso achieved in the Sakhir international circuit.
A repertoire of six pilots
In addition to the Asturian pilot, five competitors had achieved the same milestone throughout history. The first one was the historic Juan Manuel Fangio (1956), followed by Giancarlo Baghetti (1961), Mario Andretti (1971), Nigel Mansell (1989) and Kimi Räikkönen (2007).
Celebration in the Ferrari team after Fernando Alonso’s victory on Sakhir.marca layout
However, the most laureate pilot in the history of Ferrari, Michael Schumacher, did not start with his right foot his adventure in the ‘Scuderia’. The German had to wait until his seventh race to achieve his first victory, but he got it in his first season. Ferrari had suffered brutal years in the early and mid -1990s, but Schumacher’s arrival was the beginning of better days.