With Fernando Alonso set to call it quits on Formula 1 at the end of this season, it is fitting to compare him to Michael Schumacher, the man the Spaniard dethroned when he ended Ferrari's glory years by taking the title in 2006 and 2007. F1 veteran Pat Symonds worked with both drivers during their world championship winning years. Schumacher won in 1994 and 1995 with Symonds in his corner, at what was then Benetton, and just over a decade later he was part of Alonso's double title-winning spell with the same team that had morphed into Renault at that point. In an interesting interview with Speedweek's Mathias Brunner, Symonds recalled working with the two legends, 'They had an exemplary...
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