This weekend marks the three hundredth Grand Prix for a former Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher and Alonso was keen to add his own eulogy to mark the occasion. “Michael will always be the reference, because you need to respect someone who has won seven titles, so many races and had so many pole positions,” he affirmed. “He is the “record man” in Formula 1 and as long as he is still on the grid with us, he will be the best and the one I respect most and the one I try to copy the most. We should all have maximum respect for him.”