Fernando Alonso

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Biography

Cuban ballet dancer

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • Spain
  • Nationality
  • Spanish
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 29 July 1981
  • Place of birth
  • Oviedo
  • Death date
  • 2013-07-27
  • Death age
  • 99
  • Place of death
  • Havana
  • Children
  • Laura Alonso
  • Spouses
  • Raquel Del Rosario
  • Knows language
  • Italian language·English language·Spanish language
  • Member of
  • McLaren·Scuderia Ferrari·Renault F1 Team·McLaren·Renault F1 Team
  • Parents
  • Jose Luis Alonso

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Trivia

Formula One racing driver, who has driven for Minardi , Renault (2003-2006, 2008-2009), Ferrari (2010-14) and McLaren (2007, 2015-). Is 2005 and 2006 F1 World Champion.

Was the youngest back-to-back World Champion in Formula One until Sebastian Vettel secured his second championship in the 2011 season.

Is the third youngest driver in Formula One history to start a Grand Prix (Australian GP 2001). Is the second youngest driver to win a Grand Prix (Hungarian GP 2003), and take a Pole Position (Malaysian GP 2003).

Received the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports in 2005.

Fernando Alonso won the Formula Ones German Grand Prix on July 22, 2012.

He was co-founder of Cubas National Ballet He was the ex-husband of world-renowned ballerina and fellow National Ballet co-founder Alicia Alonso.

Founding member of Ballet Nacional de Cuba with his ex-wife, Alicia Alonso. Dulce Anaya was among their students.

In 1940, he and Alicia joined the American Ballet Theatre, where they remained for eight years. They returned to Havana in 1948, and became part of a group called the Ballet Alicia Alonso. It later became the National Ballet.

Married ex-wife, Alicia Alonso Ahmet, by proxy in their native Havana with Alonsos father representing the groom, who was in New York.

Quotes

I like to race, not to do laps alone. .

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