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What Fernando Alonso’s 2023 Season Reveals Beyond Wins

Alonso’s 2023 record combines eight Sunday podiums with a 19–3 qualifying edge and 206 championship points.

Fernando AlonsoLance StrollAston MartinCircuit de MonacoLas Vegas Street CircuitMarina Bay Street Circuit
DeanPublished 2026-10-05Data checked 2026-10-02
Fernando Alonso driving the Aston Martin AMR23 at the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso in Aston Martin’s AMR23 during the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Photograph: Lukas Raich. Original source Wikimedia Commons file CC BY-SA 4.0 Resized and compressed; no crop.

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At a glance
Fernando Alonso scored no Grand Prix wins in 2023 but finished fourth with 206 championship points, eight Sunday podiums and a 19–3 qualifying advantage over Aston Martin teammate Lance Stroll.

  • Championship4th206 points; tied on points with P5
  • Grand Prix podiums8from 22 race classifications
  • Qualifying head-to-head19–3Alonso ahead in 19 of 22 Grands Prix
  • Aston Martin points share73.6%206 of 280 team points

Wins are easy to count, but they mix a driver’s performance with the strength of the car. In 2023, Red Bull won 21 of the 22 Grands Prix, leaving little room for another team to claim victory. Alonso did not win a Sunday race, yet the official season standings place him fourth, with 206 points. His season shows what a fuller driver profile can add: qualifying position, teammate comparison, podium conversion and reliability each describe a different part of the result.

Podiums and points fill in the winless season

Alonso scored eight Grand Prix podiums and 198 points from Sunday races. He added eight points across the six Sprints, bringing his championship total to 206. The distinction matters: Sunday wins and podiums are race classifications, while the championship total also includes Sprint points. The official standings put Alonso level on points with Charles Leclerc, but ahead in fourth on countback; Alonso recorded eight podiums to Leclerc’s six.

The outcome was valuable to Aston Martin as well. The team scored 280 constructors’ points, of which Alonso supplied 206, or 73.6 percent. That share is descriptive rather than a measure of isolated driver contribution: both cars’ points count, and team scoring depends on the car, reliability, strategy and each driver’s results.

A teammate comparison uses two different denominators

Comparing drivers in the same car controls for some machinery differences, but the method still needs clear denominators. Alonso qualified ahead of Stroll in 19 of 22 Grand Prix qualifying sessions; Stroll was ahead in three. Their mean qualifying positions were 7.00 and 12.45 respectively. This describes the final session order and does not measure the time gap between them.

Race head-to-head is narrower. Both drivers had a numeric official finishing position at 16 Grands Prix. Alonso finished ahead in 14 of those paired classifications, while Stroll finished ahead twice. The remaining weekends are not forced into a win or loss: a nonnumeric classification or a non-start makes the two-driver finish comparison unavailable. The charts show each denominator explicitly.

Alonso vs Stroll: qualifying sessions ahead, 2023 (n = 22)

Weekends Ahead

Grand Prix qualifying sessions won by driver · denominator 22 · All 22 Grands Prix in the 2023 season

  1. Fernando Alonso19
  2. Lance Stroll3
Alonso vs Stroll: qualifying sessions ahead, 2023 (n = 22)
Alonso vs Stroll: qualifying sessions ahead, 2023 (n = 22)
DriverWeekends AheadDenominatorShare Percent
Fernando Alonso192286.36
Lance Stroll32213.64

Alonso vs Stroll: paired Grand Prix classifications ahead (n = 16)

Paired Finishes Ahead

paired numeric classified finishes won by driver · denominator 16 · 2023 Grand Prix race classifications

  1. Fernando Alonso14
  2. Lance Stroll2
Alonso vs Stroll: paired Grand Prix classifications ahead (n = 16)
Alonso vs Stroll: paired Grand Prix classifications ahead (n = 16)
DriverPaired Finishes AheadDenominatorShare Percent
Fernando Alonso141687.5
Lance Stroll21612.5

Consistency, with limits

Alonso finished 20 of 22 Grands Prix in an official classified position, a 90.9 percent rate. He scored in 19 of the 22 races. Those measures are related but not interchangeable: a classified result can fall outside the points, and a nonnumeric retirement is not a finishing position. His eight podiums represent 36.4 percent of his race starts, while the 19 points finishes show how often he converted a Sunday into championship points.

These figures do not establish that Alonso’s performance alone explains Aston Martin’s early-season competitiveness or later results. The comparison covers one season and one teammate pairing; Stroll missed the Singapore race start, and the cars faced the same development and strategy choices. The results describe what happened under the 2023 rules, not what would have happened with another driver or car.

Round-by-round qualifying and race classifications

Official 2023 Grand Prix qualifying position and final race classification for Alonso and Stroll. “NC” means the official result listed no numeric classification; blank denotes no race classification.
Grand PrixAlonso qualifyingStroll qualifyingAlonso raceStroll race
Bahrain5836
Saudi Arabia363NC
Australia4634
Azerbaijan6947
Miami218312
Monaco2142NC
Spain9676
Canada31329
Austria7659
Great Britain912714
Hungary814910
Belgium91059
Netherlands511211
Italy1020916
Singapore72015—
Japan10178NC
Qatar417611
United States1719NC7
Mexico1318NC17
Brazil4335
Las Vegas101495
Abu Dhabi713710

Method and sources

The sample contains all 22 2023 Grand Prix qualifying sessions and race classifications; Imola was cancelled. Sprints are excluded from qualifying and race head-to-head, wins, podiums and Sunday points. Qualifying H2H compares final session positions. Race H2H compares only weekends where both drivers had numeric classifications: Alonso 14, Stroll 2, n = 16. Championship points and team totals follow the official 2023 Drivers’ Championship standings and Constructors’ Championship standings. Event-by-event positions are cited in the saved ledger using each official F1 race archive qualifying and race-result page. See more in Driver Profiles, compare Hamilton’s 2024 teammate results, or read Senna’s championship campaigns.

Championship snapshot

Standings

Season 2026 · Round 15

Drivers

Points
  1. 1Kimi AntonelliMercedes302
  2. 2George RussellMercedes236
  3. 3Lewis HamiltonFerrari199
  4. 4Lando NorrisMcLaren186
  5. 5Charles LeclercFerrari179
  6. 6Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing163
  7. 7Oscar PiastriMcLaren120
  8. 8Isack HadjarRed Bull Racing86
  9. 9Liam LawsonRacing Bulls59
  10. 10Pierre GaslyAlpine41

Constructors

Points
  1. 1Mercedes538
  2. 2Ferrari378
  3. 3McLaren306
  4. 4Red Bull Racing263
  5. 5Racing Bulls83
  6. 6Alpine68
  7. 7Haas F1 Team27
  8. 8Audi17
  9. 9Williams12
  10. 10Aston Martin3

Snapshot: 2026-09-30 01:26 UTC

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