Jaime Alguersuari has offered a less than flattering opinion about the personality of his fellow Spaniard and F1 driver Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n
“He is cold (frio), very cold,” said 20-year-old Alguersuari, the youngest driver on the grid who races with the second Red Bull team, Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n
“He is a man of few words,” he is quoted as saying by Dir Emotions.\u00a0 “I have no relationship with him.”<\/p>\n
Alguersuari also described the Ferrari driver and double world champion as “a great” F1 racer.<\/p>\n
Alonso, 29, recently moved to clarify some misperceptions by revealing that when people actually meet him, they often remark that he is “nicer” than his media image.<\/p>\n
The German-language spox.com compared Alonso’s apparent win-at-all-costs attitude with that of Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n
“In the media we read again and again things about ourselves that are not right,” said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n
“People are making judgements from the outside, but that’s the business.”<\/p>\n
Asked to clarify the misperceptions, Alonso said: “I am very calm and relaxed, even romantic.\u00a0 Actually, I’m a normal guy.<\/p>\n
“A little bit shy, but when everything’s right, that’s when the Spaniard in me comes out,” he laughed.<\/p>\n
In Singapore last weekend, Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali agreed that Alonso is “cool and calm and sometimes difficult”.<\/p>\n
And after back-to-back victories from pole, Alonso says he is on the top of his game.<\/p>\n
“The F1 championship is very long compared to other sports so you can’t be completely fit, focused, motivated 100 per cent of the time.<\/p>\n
“But now, in this part of the championship, I’m at a peak,” he is quoted in the Spanish press.<\/p>\n
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