Fernando Alonso and Ferrari acclaimed

Fernando Alonso is the pilot that Italy was waiting for to restore the image of the Team. The F10 is the car that the Spaniards were waiting for to see the Asturian driver triumph. On the other side of the Alps or the Pyrenees, the triumph is total this Monday. Even if the Ferrari double was obtained thanks to a failure of the car Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), neither the Italians nor the Spaniards shy away from their pleasure.

In Spain, the victory of the double World Champion helped boost the audience of the Sexta channel. The race was followed by an average of 4 spectators, a record for a season opening race on the Iberian Peninsula. A peak was even reached at the end of the race, with nearly 950 million Spaniards watching the Ferrari driver's triumph.

The daily Marca does not hesitate to speak of the national champion as a “myth”, for his first race within the Maranello team. “Alonso is about to mark his era,” continues the daily, which sees in the Spaniard the worthy successor of Michael Schumacher at Ferrari. The daily As remains in the same register, affirming that the native of Oviedo is “starting a new era” with Ferrari, during which “he can mark his era, having laid his first stone thanks to this victory”. As for the newspaper El Païs, it does not hesitate to say that? “Alonso resurrects (with) Ferrari”, playing on the double meaning of this statement, since the driver and the team simultaneously find victory after a difficult period.

In Italy, superlatives are not more modest, the trans pressalpine displaying his pride in seeing the double World Champion rekindle the flame that had gone out in Maranello. “Alonso all in red” headlines the Gazzetta dello Sport, which talks about? “unique emotion” seeing “two Ferraris win in front of all the others”, with “Schumi sixth at 44 seconds”. Among our Italian friends, ?betrayal? of the German pilot is still not digested?

Many transalpine newspapers are also highlighting the ranking of the seven-time World Champion, which sounds like a victory for the Scuderia over the German's ambition to return to the forefront. “Schumacher disappoints,” says La Repubblica, “Schumacher only sixth,” notes La Stampa.

Il Giornale continues the praise for the Scuderia, speaking of the “rebirth of the Prancing Horse” after the “humiliations of 2009”. Same tone for Corriere della Serra, who sees in the Ferrari double the “rebirth” of the Maranello team.

In Spain and Italy, this success had been expected for several months. The excitement surrounding the arrival of Fernando Alonso at Ferrari is reflected today in a concert of praise. But, of course, in these two countries, Bahrain's success also creates enormous expectations for the rest of the season. Alonso and Ferrari must not disappoint them.