This is why you remember McLaren's new boss Andrea Stella

"I don't want to know"

After the debut of the Stella-Alonso duo in Bahrain, they headed to the 2010 Australian Grand Prix. The Spaniard won the first race, but due to a contact at the start he found himself in a comeback race in the second round of the season. Ferrari managed to put him in a good position with a one-stop strategy, but the drivers following him had fresh tyres, especially Hamilton right behind him.

The Brit got closer and closer and Andrea Stella started to communicate the gap to Alonso - still in English, not Italian as it will be in later years - and the Spaniard, hearing 'Hamilton 3.5, 3.5...' replies, 'OK. I don't want to know." A very Kimi Raikkonen-like move.

"You're giving it your best"

The 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is still an open wound for Ferrari fans. Alonso arrived at the venue with an eight-point lead over Webber, 15 over Vettel and 24 over Hamilton. Ferrari thus made the mistake of concentrating their efforts on Webber's race, even though it is Sebastian Vettel who started in the lead. After the pit stops Alonso came out ahead of Webber, as per Ferrari's strategy, and as Stella pointed out 'Webber lost a lot of time behind Alguersuari, now let's concentrate on us'.

Alonso, however, remains stuck behind Petrov, who is slower than him, for several laps, losing more and more time in relation to the lead of the race, in which Vettel is also. So Andrea Stella tries to comfort the Spaniard, telling him: 'OK I know and I see you're giving your best, but it's really hard to overtake him'. Then, when the stalemate continues, he reminds him: 'Use all your talent, we know how great it is, use it'. Unfortunately, these efforts didn't come with reward and the 2010 world championship went to Vettel.

'Fantastic day'

In 2012 Alonso started his third season at Ferrari, still in the hunt for the world title. At that year's European Grand Prix, held in Valencia, the Spaniard found himself forced to recover from his 11th starting position. Thanks to an excellent pit-stop and a bit of luck, he managed to take the lead in the race and never let go until the finish line.

It is therefore a home victory for Alonso, who cannot contain his joy. Andrea Stella opens the radio at the end of the race and exclaims, "Gionata fantastic!", and Alonso responds with several shouts of joy and audible emotion, to which Stella can be heard responding with another laugh. It is the second win of the season for Alonso, but not even on this occasion does he go on to win the world title.

'You are fools'

Alonso arrives at the 2013 Italian Grand Prix at a disadvantage in the standings to his title rival Sebastian Vettel. In Q3 of qualifying at Monza, Ferrari tried to exploit the slipstream between Massa and Alonso to improve the Spaniard's time, but the two are too far apart to do so. Alonso's frustration is already high, and was also high in the previous races.

At one point from the pits Stella asks his driver to let Rosberg pass during the lead lap. At that point, the Asturian loses patience and explodes: 'So you have to let him pass? You guys are really dumb! Mamma mia guys!'. At the other end of the radio is Andrea Stella, helplessly watching Alonso's rant.

'Mickey Mouse chicane'

To conclude, an episode in which Fernando Alonso is only an uninterested spectator, but which deserves to be included. We are in Singapore in 2012, a race at which Alonso comes out ahead of Vettel in the world championship. The race would later end with the victory of the German himself, with Alonso right behind him.

What interests us, however, is the amusing moment when Andrea Stella tunes up the radio. The engineer from Orvieto starts describing all the corners his driver takes, in order to have an audio reference. When Alonso passes Turn 10, after a very serious sequence of corner numbers, Stella names the next section with an ironic 'Mickey Mouse chicane', which is also often used by fans to talk about Turns 11 and 12 of the Marina Bay circuit.