The 2024 Formula 1 season is just a few hours away from starting and the teams’ cars will race once again in the Bahrain Grand Prix, in what will be the longest season in the history of the highest category of professional motorsports. This season will begin with the premise that Red Bull Racing is the clear favorite to win both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships.
Red Bull Racing, together with the current world champion, the Dutchman Max Verstappen and the Mexican Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez, will have the most powerful car at their disposal. and fast from the driver grid, and the rest of the teams will seek with their new cars, to surprise and snatch the success and glory that the Austrian team has had in recent years.
The Spaniards Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz hope to improve their performances in the 2023 season, and this will also help them achieve new directions and much more personally favorable situations for the 2025 season, since both end their contracts with their current teams, Aston Martin and Ferrari.
It must be remembered that the departure of Carlos Sainz from Ferrari comes due to what was this year’s surprise signing by the multiple world championthe British Lewis Hamilton for the Italian Maranello team, leaving behind Mercedes, whom he will defend for the last time this 2024 campaign.
The 2024 Formula 1 season expects high-level competition and a lot of rivalry between teams and even between drivers who act as teammates.and the plus of being the campaign with the most races in the history of the category, will bring the excitement and action to its peak.
Fernando Alonso passed over Max Verstappen in the padel
Fernando Alonso is an exceptional athlete and behind the wheel he has demonstrated all his level and hierarchy, but this is not just limited to a single-seater.On the contrary, the Asturian showed that he has talents for other sports disciplines, this time in padel.
And it was precisely in a padel match where the Spanish pilot and two-time world champion demonstrated once again how competitive he is when it comes to demonstrating his talent and level as an athlete.
In the last few hours, the images where the protagonists showed off their talent in a paddle tennis match went viral through social networks. where several renowned figures from Formula 1 also participated, such as Lando Norris from McLaren, Daniel Ricciardo from Alpine, Charles Leclerc from Ferrari and the retired Pedro de la Rosa, among others.
Alonso and Norris vs Verstappen and Leclerc
Although on the courts they are rivals, in padel they are companions and the couples that were formed for this small tournamentwas quite unique and epic, especially because of the result of the duel where Alonso and Verstappen were the protagonists.
The duel was quite intense and as seen in the images you can see several balloons, shots and also the Spanish pilot took power of the actions to win the point in the only way he has done in his careers behind a car, in a big way and making it clear who Fernando Alonso is.
Alonso’s victory was much more epic because of the celebration he had with his teammate Lando Norrisand the Red Bull Racing driver simply watching on site.
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