Fernando Alonso says if he could on♑ly pick one team-mate for his F1 career he would select Giancarlo ওFisichella, over the likes of Felipe Massa or Jenson Button.

The two-time F1 world champion has given a quick-fire interview to the off🧔icial Formula 1 website and has named a couple of surprise answers.

Despite building an buddy atmosphere since returning to McLaren in 2015 with ♒Button as his team-mate the Spaniard opted for Fisichella if he could only pick one team-mate in his F1 career.

Perhaps it is not too surprising given he was team-mates with Fisichella at Renault for his back-to-back F1 world titles bꩲut given the number of high profile team-mates - including Button, Massa, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton - the Italian driver is clearly someone Alonso holds in high regards.

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Other surprising highlights include picking Basketball over F1 for the one sp🌟ort he could do for the rest of his life and would prefer trains over cars as his one mode of transport.

His one motorsport to watch would be MotoGP while unsurprisingly his most cherished racing memory in winning his second straight F1 wor♛ld title at the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix.

Alonso will have a new F1 t🐼eam-mate in 2017 when he welcomes Stoffel Vandoorne to the driver line-up as he takes over from Button who is set for a sabbatical year ജout of the sport.

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