Fernando Alonso will reach a mega milestone this F1 weekend in Mexico tomorrow, he will compete in his 400th Grand Prix weekend.
Back in 2001 when Alonso made his Formula 1 debut with the Minardi team, three drivers on the current grid were not even born: Oscar Piastri (who missed Alonso’s debut race in his city of Melbourne by a month), Franco Colapinto and Liam Lawson. In addition, Yuki Tsunoda was just 10 months old, and Guanyu Zhou and Lando Norris were only one year old.
Max Verstappen was three years old. In fact, his father, Jos Verstappen, was still racing in Formula 1 for the Arrows team at the time. Verstappen junior entered F1 in 2015 and then faced Alonso for the first time. So far, Alonso has won 32 Grands Prix and won two world titles in 2005 and 2006. The Spaniard extended his contract with Aston Martin and will continue racing in 2025 and 2026 at least.
