Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso insists he's not the self-centred driver that he's sometimes portrayed as in the media. “I think the reputation is always one thing and the facts are different,” he told the media at last week's FIA Prize Gala in Paris. Alonso memorably fell out with his then-new team mate Lewis Hamilton in 2007, and later went on to a stormy time at Ferrari. Subsequently he made little effort to conceal his growing dissatisfaction at McLaren's dismal partnership with Honda between 2015 and 2017. Alonso ready to enjoy Dakar, but not ready to win "You see crashing teammates and things like that, as we saw this year and you see every year between...
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