It is well known the admiration that many of the pilots of the current grid of the Formula 1 for a legend like Fernando Alonso with which they have grown, have fallen in love with F1 and have learned.
guanyu zhou and Yuki Tsunoda They have been the last riders to surrender to the two-time world champion, but the case of the Japanese holds a curious anecdote.
In statements to the official F1 podcast, ‘Beyond the Grid’, the Japanese has explained how it was the moment in which he changed helmets with his idol.
Of course, the initiative did not come from him: “He is very kind, a great boy. We have changed the helmet, something that I wanted even before being an F1 driver. But I was too nervous to ask himso I never went to him to tell him.”
It was Alonso himself who proposed it to him… and unleashed his emotion: “But last year, about the Spanish GP, he asked me. My head exploded. I was super happy, I tried not to make a fool of myself in front of him, but my heart was jubilant. The first thing I did was call my father.”
In fact, the Oviedo was not expected to be so open: “I had a different image of him before I met him. He expected it to be something like…a legend and not as close as it is. The car is a bit too far to fight with, which is what I would like to be able to do now.”
