Alonso confirms dating TV presenter Schlager

Fernando Alonso and Andrea Schlager

Spanish Formula One star Fernando Alonso has made his relationship with Austrian TV presenter Andrea Schlager official on Instagram.

On Monday, he Instagrammed this below picture for his 4.2 million followers and captioned it: "Thank you Miami, see you next year with even more desire and better! #miami #f1." Schlager too posted the same picture and wrote: "Miami by night. It was a great weekend. Thank you all for joining the journey." Rumours about their romance begun when Alonso, 40, and Schlager, 39, started ‘liking' each other's posts on social media a few months ago.

However, they have started to tag each other on their social media posts. According to The Sun, the Alpine driver flew in a private jet to Austria to spend time with Schlager. In an earlier Instagram video of Schlager riding a horse which was posted on Alonso's official account, he wrote: "Happy horse...powerful beauty."