Simple logic would propose that this season the 31-year-old has his best possibility however of attractive the 10th driver to win a title for the Italian glamour team, joining a list of greats that comprise Juan Manuel Fangio, Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher.
Being coronet with the most successful team in the history of the sport, one that has struggle in every contest since the first in 1950 would be a occupation high for a driver who is previously Ferrari's clear number one.
To be a Ferrari favourite you do not have to win the contest for the Maranello team - Gilles Villeneuve and Nigel Mansell never did - but Alonso wants additional than just love and admiration. The Spaniard won three races in 2012 and, beside the odds, finished on the platform 13 times in 20 starts. Despite behind out in the end, Alonso affirmed it a 'dream season' but he feels the best is however to come.
"Last year was the best year of my career and I was very pleased with the recital, but I think this year will be better," he said this week. "We have an improved starting point, and I have educated from some mistakes of last year. I have prepared better. I am enhanced than last year."
Give him the tools and Alonso, twice a defender with Renault in 2005 and 2006, can create the difference. He knows it and so do the teams, who have completed everything they can to provide him a winning machine.