Fernando Alonso reveals key difference he noticed between Ferrari and McLaren. Alonso explains key difference between Ferrari and McLaren.

Former Scuderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso has shared his thoughts on the major differences that he noticed between the Maranello team and McLaren during his time spent with each team in Formula 1.

The two-time Formula 1 world champion will start his 19th Formula 1 championship in 2022 with Alpine, and over the course of his career in the sport has raced for four outfits. The Spanish driver spent five years with Ferrari, which he joined in 2010, coming close to winning the Formula 1 world championship on two occasions, but unfortunately without being able to bring the title back to Maranello. Fernando Alonso admits that every team have their own approach to how they go about things, particularly in the case of McLaren – who he drove for in 2007 before returning for a second, less successful stint between 2015 and 2018.

“I think each of them has part of the DNA of the team,” Fernando Alonso said in his interview for the Beyond The Grid podcast – “”Historically, they’ve been racing with a different philosophy, so each of them are different. In Renault I think you find this family environment and friendly approach, by everyone in Enstone and Paris. In Ferrari, I think it’s a little bit more passionate, what you see there from the people at the factory. A little bit more chaotic, as well, because it’s part of maybe the Latin, Italian, Spanish DNA as well. McLaren is a little bit more serious, a little bit more precise [in] everything, but maybe lacking a little bit of communication internally as well, but a very professional environment. And yeah, each of them is just a little bit different, but they are all finding the limits and arriving to the same goal, which is producing the fastest cars possible, and they are all extreme on that.” – he explained.

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Fernando Alonso made his Formula One debut for Minardi back in 2001, where he impressed from the start and was given the opportunity to drive for Renault the following year. The two-time World Champion believes that the backmarker team had some similarities to Scuderia Ferrari regarding their passion for Formula 1

“I put it more in the Italian side, it’s more like Ferrari. I think what I found in Minardi in those days was a very passionate group of people about Formula 1, with very little resources at that time, and [it was] quite a changeable environment in the way that, at the beginning of the year, it was Minardi.” – former Scuderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso concluded.