Question: In 2006 you won the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports. Which other Formula One driver has received this prestigious prize?
Fernando Alonso: Michael Schumacher.
Correct
Question: You won your two titles in consecutive years. Five other drivers also claimed two titles, but of those five only two managed it in successive seasons - can you name them?
Fernando Alonso: It must be Mika Hakkinen and I guess Emerson Fittipaldi.
One out of two ain’t bad - it was indeed Hakkinen, but the other driver was Alberto Ascari.
Question: Back in 2007, then Renault team boss Flavio Briatore described someone as the ‘anti-Alonso’. Which driver was he referring to?
Fernando Alonso: Heikki.
Correct - it was indeed Kovalainen.
Question: You share your surname with a famous Spanish footballer, Xabi. He moved to Real Madrid for the 2009 season, but which English club had he played for over the previous five seasons?
Fernando Alonso: Liverpool FC.
Correct
Question: You are a UNICEF ambassador. In what year was the organisation founded?
Fernando Alonso: Right after the end of the Second World War
Near enough - it was set up in 1946.
Question: In your first F1 season, you raced for Minardi. At what event did you clinch your best result of the year and what was your placing?
Fernando Alonso: Must have been 10th at the German Grand Prix.
Correct
Question: At the 2003 Hungarian you became F1’s youngest race winner, a record since beaten by Sebastian Vettel, but who is the oldest F1 winner in history?
Fernando Alonso: Must have been long before my time. Don’t know.
Incorrect - Luigi Fagiola, who won the 1951 Italian Grand Prix aged 53 years, 22 days.
Question: You have recorded 13 fastest laps in your Formula One career to date. Which 2009 driver has the nearest total to yours?
Fernando Alonso: I don’t know, but I should.
Incorrect - it’s Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on 12.
