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Ecclestone picks Alonso, Rindt in F1 dream team

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Bernie Ecclestone has picked Fernando Alonso as one of the two drivers he would have in his all-time F1 dream team.

In a feature running on the official Formula One website, Ecclestone was one of a number of senior F1 figures asked to pick two drivers, a team principal and a car from the sport's history to make up their dream team. Picking Alonso as one of the drivers, Ecclestone also opted for 1970 world champion Jochen Rindt; a driver he used to manage and the only one to win the world title posthumously.

Between them, Alonso and Rindt boast three world championships, 38 victories and 110 podium finishes. Rindt was killed in September 1970 when he crashed during practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

In terms of his team principal, Ecclestone chose former Benetton and Renault boss Flavio Briatore to head up the team. Briatore was banned from F1 for his role in the 2008 'Crashgate' scandal, though the ban was subsequently overturned on appeal. Briatore was also Alonso's team principal at Renault when the Spaniard won his two world titles.

Ecclestone also picks the Brabham BT49 which took Nelson Piquet to his first drivers' championship in 1981. Ecclestone was the Brabham team owner at the time of Gordon Murray's design, which went on to take seven victories.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.