Fernando Alonso, from villain to Hero

I started watching Formula 1 from 1998. It was Mika who won the championship but who catches my eyes were Ferrari and sitting in Ferrari Michael Schumacher. In no time, i became fan of Ferrari and Schumi.

 

Ferrari didn’t win in 1998 and 1999 but my support remained with them. From 2000, I saw Schumi and Ferrari destroying other teams. It remained unchallenged till 2004. 5 successive years on the top and none looks like challenging them.  But none noticed a new driver coming up – Fernando Alonso.  He stood 4^th in 2004, making upto podium for 4 times.

 

Suddenly, in 2005 Fernando Alonso wins 3 out of first 4 races. He was on top, Schumi won only much talked about US Grand Prix only. At the yearend Alonso was new champion, replacing my favorite Schumi. No doubt I didn’t like Alonso’s emergence. 2006 was last year of Schumi, even then Alonso came and pinned Schumi for title. I disliked Alonso even more. In 2007, joined McLaren – now he was villain for me. I never like McLaren and a disliked personality joining another disliked company – made him villain for me.

 

He had his problem with McLaren and parted their ways in 2008. I was secretly smiling because both disliked entities suffered. McLaren never recovered as it is difficult to replace a driver like Alonso. Alonso joined Renault and but because the car was not that competitive, he failed. I was happy.

 

I found Alonso impressive in Singapore Grand Prix.  From nowhere he won the race – ofcourse he was helped by Safety car by victory is victory. Later in Japanese Grand Prix, he stunned everyone with another victory. I found him impressive – perhaps first time I have seen with neutral eye.

 

Later on when I found him saying he will help Massa to win title, I was stunned. Alonso will to help Ferrari, Ferrari driver. Imagine how much he dislikes McLaren and McLaren driver. He is same as what I am, not liking McLaren. No there is no Schumi running now, Alonso is off from ‘Schumi effect’.

 

I am looking forward to him as a new favorite of mine but I am a Ferrari fan. Now, I like Alonso to drive Ferrari for F1 title – it would be great combination, just next to Schumi-Ferrari combination for me.

 

Waiting for Alonso to drive Ferrari.