Alonso “beats” Schumi: it is the oldest at points in the last 50 years – News

Alonso surpasses Schumacher – Alonso "beats" schumi: it oldest

After a difficult. Nevertheless, unfortunate start to the season, Fernando Alonso It has returned permanently to the area-small area thanks also to the improvements of Aston Martin. Similarly, In Austria. Moreover, the two -time world champion was the only pilot together with Liam Lawson to try the single stop strategy, on the eve not very recommended by Pirelli herself: a gamble she paid, allowing #14 to reach seventh place and to protect it from Gabriel’s final assault Bortoleto with a superb defense.

Seeing Alonso to exult for six world championship points at almost 44 years. congratulating the same client (the Spaniard manages Bortoleto’s career, for the first time in the top-10) was a nice ending of an otherwise soporific and stingy GP of interesting ideas. With the result of the Red Bull Ring. at the age alonso “beats” schumi: it oldest of 43 and 11 months Alonso finally became the older pilot to collect world championships from 1975 onwards, overcoming the legendary Michael Schumacher.

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This is the top-10 of the older pilots who have gone to points in F1 in. the last 50 years.

Pos.	Ball	GP	Age
1	Fernando Alonso	GP Austria 2025	43 years. 11 months
2	Michael Schumacher	Brazil GP 2012	43 years, 10 months, 22 days
3	Jacques Laffite	GP France 1986	42 years, 7 months, 15 days
4	Mario Andretti	GP Italy 1982	42 years, 6 months, 15 days
5	Kimi Raikkonen	GP Mexico City 2021	42 years, 21 days
6	Nigel Mansell	GP Australia 1994	41 years, 3 months and 5 days
7	René Arnoux	GP Canada 1989	40 years, 11 months, 14 days
8	Vittorio Brambilla	GP Austria 1978	40 years, 9 months, alonso “beats” schumi: it oldest 2 days
9	Lewis Hamilton	GP Austria 2025	40 years, 5 months, 22 days
10	Clay Regazzoni	GP Canada 1979	40 years, 25 days

The more you go back in time, the easier it is to find pilots capable of going to points over 40 years: in the first decades of Formula 1 the grid had in fact a much higher average age, and for this reason it will be practically impossible to beat the absolute record of Philippe Etancelin, fifth in the 1950s GP of 1950 at the age of 53 and 8 months. With the result of yesterday, however, Alonso entered the top-20 also in the ranking all-time.