As the 2011 pre-season enters its final week, Fernando Alonso has stepped up his rhetoric and vowed revenge on new world champion Sebastian Vettel.

It is widely acknowledged that only a bad strategy blunder cost the Spaniard his third drivers’ crown in 2010, and Alonso’s new Ferrari is believed to again be Red Bull’s closest rival for honours this season.

“In 2011 I want a rematch of last year,” Alonso told Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

“I want the world title to be mine at the end of the year, and also in 2012, 2013 and every subsequent year. Read the rest of this entry »