Fernando Alonso

3. Complete the sentences:

a) The national kart title was won by Fernando Alonso in 1994.

b) If Alonso had not abandoned his studies, he couldn’t have been a professional driver.

c) In 2007, McLaren received Fernando Alonso as a new driver.

d) The second season  was important to Alonso because he won the Hungarian Grand Prix.

5. Which are the main hits in Fernando Alonso’s career as car racing driver?

According to the text, before the beginning of Alonso’s career, he won the Spanish cadet national kart title when he was thirteen.

During his career as a kart driver, since 1999, he has won a lot of titles.

He won the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2003, and, in the same year, he was sixth in the world classifications.

Furthermore, he won the World Championship twice; in 2005 and in 2006.

6. Some people think that car racing is a boring sport. What do you think? Do you like car racing?

I think that car racing is a very exciting sport for professional kart drivers and for the fans of this sport, but I don’t like Formula One.

I know that it is a hard and dangerous sport, but I don’t enjoy watching a lot of cars that go around the circuit all the time!

In conclusion, I don’t think that racing car is a boring sport, simply, I don’t like it.