Is the double Formula 1 world champion en route to an incredible motorsport Quadruple Crown and with it the greatest all-round race driver ever? Fernando Alonso’s Dakar drive on Monday 13  may not have brought the Spanish double World Formula 1 champion and twin Le Mans 24 hour winner his first stage win, but his rise through the field in the latter half of the 455km loop around the Arabian Desert oasis of Wadi Al Dawasir certainly set him out as a future Dakar winner. Now Alonso has neither confirmed nor denied his intention to come back to Dakar, but if the day's performance in his Toyota Hilux was anything to go by, the former assumption may very well be the case. Dakar rookie...
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