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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
| Driver | Weekends Ahead | Denominator | Share Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fernando Alonso | 19 | 22 | 86.36 |
| Lance Stroll | 3 | 22 | 13.64 |
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
| Driver | Paired Finishes Ahead | Denominator | Share Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fernando Alonso | 14 | 16 | 87.5 |
| Lance Stroll | 2 | 16 | 12.5 |
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
| Grand Prix | Alonso qualifying | Stroll qualifying | Alonso race | Stroll race |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 | 6 | 3 | NC |
| Australia | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Azerbaijan | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
| Miami | 2 | 18 | 3 | 12 |
| Monaco | 2 | 14 | 2 | NC |
| Spain | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| Canada | 3 | 13 | 2 | 9 |
| Austria | 7 | 6 | 5 | 9 |
| Great Britain | 9 | 12 | 7 | 14 |
| Hungary | 8 | 14 | 9 | 10 |
| Belgium | 9 | 10 | 5 | 9 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 11 | 2 | 11 |
| Italy | 10 | 20 | 9 | 16 |
| Singapore | 7 | 20 | 15 | — |
| Japan | 10 | 17 | 8 | NC |
| Qatar | 4 | 17 | 6 | 11 |
| United States | 17 | 19 | NC | 7 |
| Mexico | 13 | 18 | NC | 17 |
| Brazil | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Las Vegas | 10 | 14 | 9 | 5 |
| Abu Dhabi | 7 | 13 | 7 | 10 |
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.