F1: 3 times Fernando Alonso surprisingly fell short of a Championship win

#2 2010 F1 Season (Position: 2nd)

Alonso joined Ferrari in 2010

After an unsuccessful second stint with Renault, Alonso was on the move again in 2010, this time to a much bigger kettle of fish. Ferrari came calling at the turn of the decade and were willing to pay big bucks to have a winning driver back in their midst.

The signs were ominous from the beginning, as Fernando won on his Ferrari debut at Bahrain and continued his good form throughout the season, albeit with the help of team orders and a bit of luck along the way.

With an eight-point lead going into the final race, the stage looked set for a third World Championship, but things went horribly wrong for Ferrari and Alonso despite finishing a competitive third in qualifying.

After losing a spot to Jenson Button, a series of bad calls from the pit-garage meant that their star driver was left stranded behind Vitaly Petrov for a significant period of the race, while Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel went on to capture the chequered flag and win his first World Championship. Whomsoever was to blame, this was just another bad day at the office for Ferrari and their main man.