Fer🦄nando Alonso has pointed out his key skill as a♑ Formula 1 driver.

T💟he oldest driver on the F1 grid again, Alonso is 43 as the 2025 season gets ready to begin.

He is still seeking the elusive 33rd grand prix victory of his career, a winless run which stretches back to 2013, but he remains one of the mos♎t formidable drivers around.

"Strengths? The starts, performing under pressure and getting the most out of any car, whethꦚer it's good or less good,🍬" Alonso assessed himself for .

"There is a♑lways room for improvement, cars are never stable.

“The driving you had in the 2000s you didn't have with the V8s in the 2010s, you don't have it now with tur🍌bo engines."

Fernando Alonso discusses his key traits

Alonso continued: "Then other categories that I tried such as endurance, the Dakar, the Indianapolis 500, I felt that I did not have the knowledge of my rivals and it was exciting to learn a🐎gain, to learn new driving techniques🔴 from scratch.

"Even though I've been behind the wheel for﷽ almost 40 years, I still have a lot of things to learn, fꦫor sure.”

Pedro deꦏ la Rose weighed in ♊on what makes Alonso special.

"Strength... I✱ would sa🦋y a very incredible thing,” de la Rosa explained.

“His ability to change the behavior of the car in curves using the brakes, which �🐼�is something that makes him different.

"Weakness? I haven't found it, but I'm still lඣooking, I'll keep looking fo🤪r it.

"Fernando is alway✨s pressuring you to make a mi𒁃stake.

"When hꦰe overtakes and makes a mistake, he goes to page 2ও, on the counterattack.”

Alonso will line up w🌠ith teammate Lance Stroll at Aston Martin for a third seasonℱ.

He threatened a long-awaited grand prix victory in the opening rounds of 2023, but last ไyear the competitiveness of his Aston Martin fell away.

Adrian Newey starts work with the Formula 1 team this year and can influence their 2026 car, when ♋the regulations significantཧly change.

It adds further intrigue to Alonso’s latter✃ years of a career which h🌃as brought him two F1 drivers’ titles.