'Fernando', Alonso's documentary, in seven sentences: "I played my neck, what difference does it make"

The five chapters of

, the Amazon Prime documentary about

, review the year 2019 of one of the most complete pilots in history.

A season marked by the World Endurance Championship, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500 and the Paris-Dakar Rally.

The concatenation of challenges, unique in the motor world, serves as an alibi to discover something of the most intimate profile of the great champion.

A controversial figure, exceptional, who never leaves anyone indifferent.

"I prefer not to have masks"

At the age of three he took the wheel of a kart, which his father had made for his sister

.

And she never got out of the car anymore.

Nor did he depart from a path, on and off the track, drawn to the millimeter.

"You can like it more or less, but you can't stop being yourself. You have to be authentic and not have masks in front of people," he underlines with rare spontaneity.

"That they think I'm cold and distant is the best thing that can happen to me, because later when they meet me they are delighted," he adds.

"The closer to the limit, the more alive you feel"

What engine continues to power a two-time F1 world champion?

Is there something beyond champagne, multi-million dollar contracts, and fame?

Adrenaline continues to be that differential factor.

"If there is risk, it is usually a little more fun. There is an explosion of life inside you when you are at the limit of risk," says Fernando, who has lost count of the times he crossed the threshold.

The terrible accident at the 2003 Brazilian GP and the latest scare, at the start of the 2018 Belgian GP, ​​seem like only side notes.

He does not think to resign: "When you are on that fine line is when you feel most alive."

"Can we rent it for a couple of hours?"

There was a distant time of economic hardship and search for sponsors, where the adolescent would make his way through talent.

Those calamities were updated, from another point of view, in May 2019. He could not even start at the Indianapolis 500, because McLaren Racing, his team, was a real disaster.

"We don't have a fan for the motor. Can we ask another team or rent it for a couple of hours?" One of

mechanics is heard asking

.

There was not even an option in the playoffs.

Not even crossing that fine line we talked about before.

"They told me to go out if I wanted to, but they didn't guarantee how the car would go. I played my neck, yes, it doesn't matter."

"The neck and back of a boxer"

The hard core of 'Alonsismo' is a club with limited capacity.

Always in front,

, someone capable of interpreting every gesture, every frustration.

"The Indianapolis 500 is and will be a goal until I achieve it. Without a doubt," warns the manager, with 17 years of experience.

A little further in the background,

,

, an old friend from the days of karts,

always appears

, a link too close to fit on the mobile: "I have saved his contact as Fernando Hermano."

And from some depth in the

, the expert hands of his physiotherapist,

: "Fernando has the neck and back of a boxer."

"This is a peeing factory"

He was always suspicious of airplanes, no matter how much he has exhausted 21 passports after his trips to all corners of the planet.

Nor did he ever endure the amusement parks, with that vertigo of vertical falls.

However, Alonso decided in 2019 that he could leave his natural habitat in a closed circuit.

And change it for the dunes of the Paris-Dakar.

The last chapter of the series, the most interesting for motor enthusiasts, recovers essential conversations with his co-driver,

.

One of the first lessons aboard the Toyota Hilux has to do with urinary incontinence.

"It is because of the jumps and more jumps. The fluids in the body move and it is more common", details Bendinelli.

"The same thing happens to Coma. We talked about it from day one. This Toyota is a peeing factory", jokes Fernando.

"Two steps behind"

From the trailer,

, his partner since 2016, launches the usual warning.

"She is not only competitive on the track, but also in personal life."

Everyone who has shared a tennis party with him or a bicycle route knows this.

However, the Italian model seems to be clear about how to separate the problems of the track from daily coexistence.

"I love the engine. It is no stranger to me, but I like to be two steps behind it. I respect so much what it does that I do not want to alter its environment," he says about his sporadic visits to the

"Another thing is our private life, where we are a couple with the same rights and obligations. I'm not in the shadows there. I wash the dishes and so does he. "

"I like it too much to quit"

In the absence of what

decides

at Alfa Romeo, Alonso will be the oldest on the grid in the 2021 World Championship. At 39 years old, he will get a little closer to the records of

(1995) and

(2012 ), two of the last forties of F1.

"I like running too much to leave it, I don't know what's on the other side of the door. It doesn't scare me, but I'm not ready to see it yet," he confesses.

The adventure with Alpine, alongside an

15 years younger, represents the last challenge for a veteran who never looks back.

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