Fernando Alonso - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025

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All right, this is going to be a turbo lap. We've got one question uh for Fernando. Fernando, fondest memories of Singapore Grand Prix, you've had a few. It's a unique night course. Um I think there's a nice answer coming up.

Hello. Hello everyone. Uh yeah from 2008 the first ever night race in Formula 1 was was held here in Singapore. So yeah um if I have to pick one will be 2010 um when I won the race here. I drove for Ferrari back then and uh yeah um that season and that race I also qualified first and on on on the grid on Saturday.

is I had the pole position and then I led every race every lap on the on the race and uh when you do those three things together pole position race win and uh leading every every lap equals grand chalen. So yeah I only have one in my career it was here in Singapore. So yeah great memories.

Awesome. Um one additional question a lot of people ask us this week what's different about this course. It's pretty bumpy. It's a street course. It's not a designed course for F1.

just talk us through some of the challenges of this tarmac. Yeah, it is a straight circuit and like all the straight circuits obviously circuit is not made for formula 1. is just for normal. They use road and um and yeah uh the challenge here definitely is the um you know the danger uh thing you know you you have the walls very close when you attack the lap there is no room for any mistake you cannot take the escape road you cannot take the the grass outside the circuit uh here is just the wall the the limitations so yeah when you are pushing at the 100% of the limits uh easy to make a mistake it's a very uh demanding in race also on the on the physical aspect is very humid. It's going to be very hot on Sundays.

So yeah, that level of focus and concentration, let's say, is is a stream here in Singapore is is probably the most demanding brace of the calendar. Um this is Fernando's first time inside the the forum of of crypto. Um I think it's a perfect training ground for the intensity of what's happening um out on the streets in coming nights. Uh this has been a nice little bonus section uh of the format. Coinbase are delighted to be having our first engagement with Fernando at one of our top international markets, Singapore.

If you give him a round of applause and let's wish him best of luck for this weekend out on the course, another Grand Shalan. Thank you. [Applause]