Fernando Alonso split: F1 driver confirms split from Raquel

del Rosario
By Every Day Mail Reporter
Updated: 13:40 GMT, 21 December 2011
Formula one driver Fernando Alonso features announced he has split via his pop star wife after five
many many years of marriage.
The double world Champion and also Spanish singer Raquel del Rosario confirmed their own break-
up inside press releases in their websites.
The pair tend to be shown to have got drifted apart since of labor commitments.
'We are usually separating as
being a couple however in no way as friends: System one driver Fernando Alonso and also Raquel
del Rosario possess confirmed they may well be splitting after five numerous years of marriage
A statement launch by the couple read: 'After five numerous years of marriage, we now have decided
to end our relationship as a couple. This specific continues in order to be a really though about and
mutual decision.
'We are generally separating via marriage, but never as friends, and there can be even now an
extremely strong affection and mutual admiration to end up being sure the happiness in the other.
'With this statement, addressed to just about all as well as any which adhere to our careers, we wish
in order to deliver a finish to virtually any speculation.
Putting on the brave face:
Alonso has been seen yesterday with F1 pilots Marc Gene and also Pedro Martinez de la Rosa with
an event throughout Madrid, Spain
'With it, we request the media respects our private lives which, while you know, we now have often
been keen for you to protect.'
The couple began dating in 2005 following Alonso invited the actual fairly brunette - lead singer for
your Spanish rock band El Sueno de Morfeo - to execute with a concert to mark his very first F1
title.
He told her afterwards on stage before thousands of fans: 'I am single and romantic.'
Sad news: Raquel posted the statement throughout Spanish on the girl behalf website
Singing star: Raquel is a big
star in their native Spain, where the lady will become the lead singer with regard to rock band El
Sueno de Morfeo
They lived throughout Oxford prior to relocating
their residence in order to Switzerland.
Fiercely protective involving their privacy, they
only confirmed these were married two years right
after their particular 2006 marriage.
Las Palmas-born Raquel, 29, has been rarely seen
with F1 races unlike Lewis Hamilton's ex Nicole
Scherzinger.
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