Although he’s already got two world titles under his belt, few victories could have meant more to Spanish F1 ace Fernando Alonso than winning his opening race with Ferrari.
Victory was handed to him at the season’s curtain opener in Bahrain when Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull Renault developed exhaust problems, but the Ferrari 1-2 that ensued proved two things: firstly, that the Scuderia Ferrari is back where it belongs, and secondly, that Fernando Alonso’s transition to the world’s most famous racing team is starting on a high note.
Lewis Hamilton has already dubbed Ferrari ‘the team to beat’, and with Alonso and Massa in good form he could well be right. Let’s not rule out Vettel, Hamilton/Button in the McLarens, nor indeed the all-German line-up of the new Mercedes F1 team, but suddenly dreams of glory are once again very much on for both Alonso and his teammate Felipe Massa, who only narrowly escaped in a horrific accident last year. The first race of 2010 proved not to have lived up to its billing, producing a rather drab affair instead, yet with Hamilton and reigning champion Button teamed up in McLaren colours, a resurgent Ferrari team, a host of new cars and that man, Michael Schumacher in the silver arrow Mercedes, who knows what can happen…
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