{"id":59220,"date":"2021-07-28T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wordpress_X\/index.php\/2021\/07\/28\/age-is-just-a-number-for-alonso-as-he-turns-40-at-the-hungarian-gp\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:54:51","slug":"age-is-just-a-number-for-alonso-as-he-turns-40-at-the-hungarian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/age-is-just-a-number-for-alonso-as-he-turns-40-at-the-hungarian-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Age is just a number for Alonso as he turns 40 at the Hungarian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>For Fernando Alonso, age is just a number as he celebrates his 40th birthday ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The double world champion will join Kimi Raikkonen in the 40+ club on Thursday and, in his race preview for Alpine, teased a new look for Budapest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I will go in the solarium, I will be tanned, I will shave, and I will look very young,&#8221; he joked. &#8220;No, it&#8217;s going to be a very normal race. No change for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=14897;alonso-says-silverstone-his-best-race-in-2021-will-continue-more-aggressive-approach&amp;catid=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alonso says Silverstone his &#8216;best race&#8217; in 2021, will continue more aggressive approach<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=14877;alpine-praise-alonso-speed-attitude-he-s-as-fast-as-ever&amp;catid=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alpine praise Alonso speed, attitude: &#8216;He&#8217;s as fast as ever!&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=13955;ricciardo-dismisses-age-concerns-over-young-sharp-alonso&amp;catid=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricciardo dismisses age concerns over &#8216;young, sharp&#8217; Alonso<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;40 is just another number. I will eat some cake, but apart from that, it&#8217;s going to be a very normal weekend. I feel 25, so whatever number it says on the passport is not what I feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It\u2019s quite nice to be celebrating a birthday at a Formula 1 weekend so I can\u2019t complain,&#8221; he acknowledged. &#8220;I am looking forward to the birthday celebrations. I think the team have a few things planned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We will be sure to celebrate a little bit, but we have an important weekend ahead, so I\u2019ll be fully focused on racing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It\u2019s our last race before the summer shutdown and I am looking to continue our good form in Budapest.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Despite his rather advanced years for a modern F1 driver, Alonso has been rolling back the years with his performances in recent races, particularly at Silverstone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-59219\" src=\"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wordpress_X\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/jm2117jy144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1198\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/jm2117jy144.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/jm2117jy144-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/jm2117jy144-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/jm2117jy144-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/jm2117jy144-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/jm2117jy144-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1198px) 100vw, 1198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In all, Fernando has scored points at the past five races for Alpine, putting teammate Esteban Ocon in the shade and firmly justifying his decision to come back to F1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI think Fernando has now silenced for good whoever doubted his return would be a success,\u201d Executive Director Marcin Budkowski stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHis speed is still there, and his race-craft is second to none, as we saw once again in both races last Saturday and Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHe will no doubt continue pushing himself and the team as the season goes on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Fernando Alonso, age is just a number as he celebrates his 40th birthday ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-formula-1"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}