Confirmed: Fernando Alonso returns to Renault Sport F1 Team for 2021 season on a two year deal!

It was confirmed yesterday (8/7/20), that former Renault driver Fernando Alonso will race with Renault Sport F1 Team for 2021 season on a two year deal, returning to the sport after two years away, alongside Esteban Ocon, completing the manufacturer's driver line-up for 2021.



Alonso will return to the outfit with whom he won his two World Championships, and for whom he has already driven twice during his career.

He left F1 in 2018 and is due to make a third attempt to win the Indianapolis 500 with McLaren in August.

Alonso move to Renault in 2002 became a test-driver, then promoted as a driver in 2003. In 2003, Alonso became the youngest driver at that time to achieve a Formula One pole position at the Malaysian Grand Prix, while finishing third for his first podium of his career. By the Hungarian Grand Prix that season, Alonso won the race, became the youngest driver to win a Formula One race at that time.

Then in 2005, Alonso won seven Grand Prixs' that season to become F1 World Champion ahead of Kimi Räikkönen, to became the youngest Drivers' Champion at that time at the age of 24 years and 59 days old, breaking Emerson Fittipaldi's record. He also ended the five-year dominance of Michael Schumacher. Then in 2006, Alonso repeated it again winning seven Grand Prixs' and winning 2006 F1 World Title ahead of Michael Schumacher. By the end of 2005, Alonso announced that he would be moving to McLaren for 2007.



Despite winning four Grand Prixs' that season with McLaren, Alonso left the team at the end of the 2007 season despite having two seasons left, after the spy-gate scandal which excluded McLaren from the Constructors' Standings. Alonso opted to return to Renault for 2008, winning two more Grand Prixs' in 2008 includes infamous Singapore Grand Prix where the team won via crash-gate.



With a win-less 2009, Alonso opted to move to Ferrari for 2010. Ending Alonso's six seasons at Renault winning seventeen Grand Prixs' and two Drivers' Titles.

It was Alonso decision to return to Renault at the age of 39, too old for Formula 1? No, Kimi Raikkonen will finish off the season as a 41 years old. Don't forget Michael Schumacher was 41 when he return to Formula 1 in 2010 although wasn't as fast at his first go. `Don't forget that Nigel Mansell won a Grand Prix when he was 41 too back in 1994 he had a second and half off in Indy Car.

Could a Renault Sport Academy driver in Christian Lundgaard or Guanyu Zhou get the drive yes. Renault opted for Alonso for multiple reasons. Is the right choice? time will tell.

All I can say, welcome back Fernando Alonso.