Fernando Alonso had his fans dreaming of future glory after the Spaniard beat favourites Red Bull and put Aston Martin top of the timesheets in Friday practice for Formula One's Bahrain season-opener.

Fernando Alonso has a reputation for making bad career choices in F1, but is an accusation the two-time World Champion firmly denies. “Sometimes I feel from the outside that people are a little ...

And Alonso has desperately chased that elusive third F1 world title for nearly 20 years. It’s his default, at this point, to push on, to blaze forward through difficult years behind the wheel.