Fernando Alonso announced that he is splitting from his wife Raquel del Rosario, a Spanish pop star. The couple were married in 2006 and made a joint statement announcing their seperation.
How will this affect the double world champ in 2012?
If anything I can imagine this will make him only stronger. Fernando was never one to have huge entourages in the team garage at race weekends, and quite honestly if I had not read this story I would not have even known he was having personal problems. He is someone that arrives at a race weekend fully committed and professional at all times.
If you contrast him with Lewis Hamilton, who was sulking publicly when he had split with his on/off again girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger. You can see how different characters they are.
If Fernando was committed before, I can only imagine him being even stronger in 2012 now that he has put his personal problems behind him.
In fact, I would not even put it past him to have dumped his wife coz he thought she was slowing him down...... :-)
Sometimes it takes something like this to focus the mind. As you say, Lewis Hamilton suffered when he split from Nicole Thingy and he must have been affected pre-split with problems.
ReplyDeleteAt least for Alonso it's all pre-season!