"Over there people don't come up to you, they leave you alone and give you space," the 22-year-old McLaren driver, who finished one point behind Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in a remarkable debut season, told the BBC.
Michael Schumacher broke the record of late great Ayrton Senna by storming to his 66th pole position of his career
The Spaniard said he would be ashamed if McLaren's appeal over alleged fuel irregularities gifted the championship to Lewis Hamilton.
The Spaniard played down his troubles with McLaren after finishing third in the Formula One title race.
It was a remarkable comeback by Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, who had trailed Lewis Hamilton by 17 points with two races to go.
Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen fight for the Formula One title in Brazil on Sunday in what promises to be one of the sport's great showdowns.
Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen fight for the Formula One title in Brazil on Sunday in what promises to be one of the sport's great showdowns.
Speculation about Fernando Alonso's F1 future shifted into overdrive even as he prepares to fight for his third title.
Narain Karthikeyan finished 17th in Saturday's first qualifying for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.
Team mate Lewis Hamilton remains the title favourite despite a Chinese Grand Prix that dealt the 22-year-old rookie his first retirement of the season after leading from pole position.
The Renault driver scored his second victory in three races to extend his lead in the Formula One world championship to 14 points.
The Spaniard, who trails team mate Lewis Hamilton by four points, said he would need some strange results and some very lucky moves to be champion for a third year in a row.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton will become Formula One's first rookie champion, as well as the youngest, if he wins in China on Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton feels McLaren want him to win the Formula One title more than team mate Fernando Alonso.
Formula One champion Fernando Alonso will do his talking on the track now that McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has revealed they are barely on speaking terms, the Spaniard said on Thursday.
The 22-year-old, bidding to become the first rookie world champion, needs to beat his McLaren team mate and double world champion Fernando Alonso at a circuit he has never even seen before.
Alonso's victory at Ferrari's home circuit was his third win in a row this season and the team's fourth in four races.
Team by team analysis of Sunday's San Marino Formula One Grand Prix (listed in championship order).\n
He will start on the front row alongside Renault's Fernando Alonso. India's Narain Karthikeyan qualified on 17th place.
The 22-year-old Briton was unimpressed after being forced off the track by Fernando Alonso at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix.
Kimi Raikkonen won the Belgian Grand Prix for the third time in a row on Sunday, leading a Ferrari one-two.
The Spaniard took pole position alongside team mate Lewis Hamilton in an all-McLaren front row for the Italian Grand Prix.
The Spaniard said he had a moral obligation to give FIA the information they were looking for in a spy probe.
A puncture slashed Lewis Hamilton's championship lead over McLaren team mate Fernando Alonso to five points.
Fernando Alonso is no longer on speaking terms with British rookie Lewis Hamilton after the Hungarian GP.
McLaren and Ferrari renew hostilities when Formula One's increasingly bitter rivals face off in the heat of the Hungaroring on Sunday.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton showed no signs of being slowed by a weekend bout of flu when he set the pace in Friday's first free practice for the European Grand Prix.
With Schumacher departed, Alonso will be the only champion in Formula One next season but he joins a team that has not won since 2005.
Michael Schumacher was left with a mountain to climb in the last race of his Formula One career after qualifying 10th for the title-deciding Brazilian Grand Prix.
Schumacher, retiring after Sunday's race at the Interlagos circuit, was sixth fastest with a lap of one minute 13.713 seconds in the afternoon session despite a spin off on to the grass.
Lance Armstrong has been voted sports personality of the year, according to a poll published in the Spanish daily
Formula One World champion Sebastian Vettel ran away with the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday to stretch his overall lead to 46 points with eight races remaining.
McLaren have promised Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso a quicker car for the next race in Germany after losing to Ferrari for the second weekend in a row.
The Finn, who led a Ferrari one-two in France last weekend, took the chequered flag 2.4 seconds ahead of McLaren's double world champion Fernando Alonso.
"Don't ever write that guy off. It's not over until it's over," said former F1 champion Damon Hill.
Fernando Alonso hailed his surprise Japanese Grand Prix victory as a gift from God.
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