Formula 1 engineer Andrea Stella, the man behind Fernando Alonso for the past a decade, has given one of the most succinct and insightful comparisons between Formula 1 legends Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso – two men he knows very well. Stella joined Ferrari in 2000 which coincided with the Italian team's golden era, he started as a member of Schumacher's spare car preparation crew at the time and experiencing that great period for the Italian team first-hand. After a year engineering for Kimi Raikkonen in 2009, when Alonso replaced the Finn at the Scuderia in 2010 it was Stella who was assigned to be his engineer. He followed the Spaniard when he moved to McLaren in 2015...
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