After starting at the Singapore Grand Prix this Sunday, the Spaniard Fernando Alonso Alpine became, at 41 years old, the driver with the most Grand Prix races in the history of the Formula 1however, the race did not end as the Spaniard would have wanted when he left due to engine problems.
Fernando Alonsodouble world champion, abandoned this Sunday, in the twenty-first of the 61 planned laps, due to an engine problem, the Singapore Grand Prix, the seventeenth of the Formula 1 World Championship, which takes place on the Marina track Bay.
Alonso, who this Sunday broke the historic record for races held in F1 -raising it to 350-, could not round off his good performance in this Grand Prix; and, when he was riding in sixth position, containing the leader of the World Championship, the Dutchman Max Verstappen of Red Bull, the propellant of his car drowned. Alpine.
After scoring points in ten races in a row, this is the second retirement in a row for the Asturian double world champion, who also had to retire two Sundays ago, in the Italian Grand Prixdisputed in Monza.
With 351 races disputed, the double Spanish world champion surpasses the previous record that he shared with the Finn Kimi raikkonen. They are followed, at a great distance, by their former teammates at Ferrari, the Brazilian Rubens Barrichello (323) and the German Michael Schumacher (307).
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Among the active pilots, the British Lewis Hamilton he is sixth with 305 races, although he will match compatriot Jenson Button next week. The German Sebastian Vettel, who announced his retirement at the end of this season, is 7th in this classification (294).
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