F1 team boss’ amazing memories of working with Alonso: “Jenson couldn’t do” what Fernando did

20 years ago, Fernando Alonso was engaged in a thrilling championship run-in with Kimi Raikkonen, and a young tyre engineer with a bright future was about to join Alonso’s Renault team. Ayao Komatsu had got his F1 break working for BAR-Honda’s test team in a high-spending era where leading manufacturer-backed organisations had two windtunnels running continuously and fully manned test squads ... Keep reading