Fernando Alonso looks ready for 20th F1 season as he shares training insight

Fernando Alonso is counting down the days to his 20th pre-season in Formula 1, with him sharing some insight into his training programme with just a week to go until the first test at Barcelona gets underway.

The new season does not begin until March 20th with the Bahrain Grand Prix but with new rules and regulations coming into the sport, there are two testing sessions already planned to help the teams and drivers get up to speed.

The first takes place at Barcelona next week with it behind closed doors in a bid to allow the teams to iron out any issues whilst the second is a more ‘official’ test that takes place a week before the race in Bahrain, hosted at the same venue.

For the drivers, meanwhile, pre-season preparation has already been underway for a while and it’s certainly not a new experience for Alonso who is set to enter his 20th Formula 1 campaign.

He appears as committed as ever to being on top of his game, though, with him preparing his neck muscles for the season to come by putting his head in this resistance band and trying to not let it get the better of him:

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We’ve seen plenty of drivers using this sort of equipment in recent weeks as they prepare for the g-force assault on their bodies once more and, now in his 40s, Alonso is looking as ready as ever for the challenges ahead.