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Section size for Fernando Alonso (46 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	10,194	10,194
Early life and karting career	13,797	13,797
Motor racing career	24	96,321
Junior racing career	2,050	2,050
Formula One	18	66,116
Minardi and Renault (2001–2006)	9,891	9,891
McLaren and second stint with Renault (2007–2009)	14,415	14,415
Ferrari (2010–2014)	9,952	9,952
Return to McLaren (2015–2019)	12,160	12,160
Alpine (2021–2022)	9,009	9,009
Aston Martin (2023–)	10,671	10,671
Endurance racing	1,468	11,983
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (2018–2019)	2,303	2,303
FIA World Endurance Championship (2018–2019)	8,212	8,212
IndyCar Series	153	12,438
McLaren Honda Andretti (2017)	5,315	5,315
McLaren Racing (2019)	4,925	4,925
Arrow McLaren SP (2020)	2,045	2,045
Off-road racing	3,710	3,710
Driving style	9,319	9,319
Helmet and career number	9,160	9,160
Driver management	627	627
Image and impact	7,884	31,484
Endorsements and philanthropy	17,485	17,485
Awards and honours	6,115	6,115
Personal life	5,997	5,997
Karting record	20	2,184
Karting career summary	2,164	2,164
Racing record	20	63,077
Racing career summary	6,302	6,302
Complete Euro Open by Nissan results	2,507	2,507
Complete International Formula 3000 results	1,798	1,798
Complete Formula One results	35,062	35,062
American open-wheel racing results	41	5,289
IndyCar Series	4,518	4,518
Indianapolis 500	730	730
IMSA SportsCar Championship	2,689	3,870
24 Hours of Daytona	1,181	1,181
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results	2,121	2,121
24 Hours of Le Mans results	1,128	1,128
Dakar Rally results	301	301
Formula One records	4,679	4,679
Notes and references	25	81
Notes	26	26
References	30	30
External links	7,933	7,933
Total	250,174	250,174

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change nvm 78.84.232.56 (talk) 18:54, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Alonsomania" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Alonsomania has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 5 § Alonsomania until a consensus is reached. TartarTorte 19:56, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Split racing record to own article

I saw the Juan Pablo Montoya article and noticed that his "racing record" section is separated into its own article. So, is anyone interested in separating the "racing record" section in this article into "Career results of Fernando Alonso"? F1fans (talk) 01:30, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why? I'm not sure such a split would be appropriate or in the readers best interest. Yes, this article is very large, and yes, it could do with a split, but moving all his results to a separate page doesn't seem the best way to go about it. Surely a better split would be Formula One career of Fernando Alonso - then we can also move the race-by-race results for Alonso's F1 career there and only have the broad season summary here. Because the big problem with Montoya's articles at the moment is that tables of results are best viewed with the context of prose about those results, and the prose is best viewed the context of the results (in my opinion). So I don't think the way Montoya's articles is split is a good way to go about it. SSSB (talk) 10:32, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

erm no no noe of that 2A00:23C8:5717:FC01:822:281C:4AA3:C92F (talk) 11:32, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 7 April 2024

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In his 'Personal life' section, change: He is 174 cm (5'9") tall

to: He is 171 cm (5'6") tall

The current information shows an incorrect conversion of cm to feet/inches, and the height in cm shown is *only* shown in the cited source and nowhere else. Therefore, also change the source to any of the links below:

- https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-driver-heights-who-are-shortest-tallest-drivers/10581491/ - https://www.planetf1.com/news/f1-drivers-height-weight - https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/85893/f1-drivers-height/ - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1898955/ - https://www.eurosport.com/formula-1/fernando-alonso_prs11697/person.shtml - https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/aston-martin-driver-fernando-alonsos-life-outside-of-f1-from-net-worth-to-cars-2/ - https://racingnews365.com/height-weight-f1-drivers Aossa (talk) 20:32, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Also, used the WP "convert" template to ensure unit conversion was correct. PianoDan (talk) 22:49, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect points

The total F1 points amased by Fernando Alonso is 2325 and not 2323 as stated in the article, the editor forgot to add 2 points to the total after his promotion from 9th postion to 8th position following the disqualification of George Russell at the 2024 Belgian GP, The racing record of Fernando adds upto 2325 points and so does the official F1 website also acknowledges the number of 2325, so the updated number for Fernando Alonso's total F1 points would 2325 and not 2323. 2001:569:FE24:6600:9888:DA09:C6AB:102 (talk) 19:43, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed He was credited with the two extra points following Russell's disqualification from the Belgian GP - see this edit, but we must have missed 2 points somewhere else along the line. Thanks for pointing out the error. DH85868993 (talk) 21:57, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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24.189.101.162 (talk) 00:37, 25 April 2025 (UTC) Hello! i am new to edditing on wikipedia, so im assuming this is asking permission to edit the wikipedia site, basically on the second paragraph - "Born and raised in Oviedo to a working class family, Alonso began kart racing aged three and won several regional, national and continental titles. He progressed to junior formulae aged 17, winning the Euro Open by Nissan in 1999 before finishing fourth in International Formula 3000. Alonso signed for Minardi in 2001, making his Formula One debut at the Australian Grand Prix. After a non-scoring rookie season, he joined Renault as a test driver before his promotion to a full-time seat in 2003; he became the then-youngest polesitter and race winner at the Malaysian and Hungarian Grands Prix, respectively, before achieving several podiums across his 2004 campaign. Alonso won his maiden title after winning seven Grands Prix in 2005, becoming the first World Drivers' Champion from Spain and the then-youngest in Formula One history, aged 24. He successfully defended his title from Michael Schumacher in 2006. Alonso moved to McLaren for 2007, finishing one point behind champion Kimi Räikkönen and returning to Renault amidst inter-team tensions. He won multiple races in 2008—including the controversial Singapore Grand Prix—before enduring a winless 2009 campaign"[reply]

"Formulae" is the correct plural of "formula". MB 2437 00:39, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

there is a misspell "formulae" and i wanted to fix that, sorry its a small fix but its all that i could find, i even searched for an hour is something called formulae exists. I though maybe i was just missing something, but alas i could not find anything. So that is why i am asking to edit this page, Thank you for your time!. P.S 2026 is Fernandos year i JUST KNOW IT.