04 ALONSO RETURNS

WAIT, WHAT? WHY is this happening? Because, above all else, Fernando Alonso misses racing in Formula 1. In the two years since he retired from the sport, he’s raced pretty much anything – LMP1, go-karts, Dakar, simulators – and he’s loved it.

Rarely have I seen a bigger smile on his face than at the FIA prizegiving ceremony last December, when he was preparing for his first Dakar.