FORMULA One world champion Fernando Alonso is still fed up that he is not the clear No 1 driver at McLaren.

The Spaniard would quit the team if he had the chance, but is resigned to spending next season with teammate Lewis Hamilton because he does not have a better choice.

"There are not many options and, as far as I know, McLaren are the only possibility," said the 26-year-old.

Asked whether he was happy at the British team, the champion replied without smiling: "As far as I have a winning car, I'm happy."
His complaint: That he is not being rewarded for the insight and expertise he has brought to McLaren.

"Last year, McLaren were nowhere," he told Spanish media. "I remember how the car was going when I tested it in December and how it went in Australia.

"Those sixth-tenths of a second that I have brought when I got in the car for the first time haven't been reflected at any time when we two drivers have been competing against each other.

"That is basically the quarrel I have had for the whole season, but who doesn't have problems with their boss?"

But team principal Ron Dennis pointed to a team effort in improving the car since the start of the season.

Meanwhile, Hamilton, who suffered his first taste of the paparazzi while holidaying on a team owner's yacht, is looking to leave Britain to get some privacy.

"My whole holiday was in the papers. I was trying to relax, but I couldn't swim, because the cameras were waiting to get 10,000 euros (S$20,700) for the pictures," he said.

His split with his long-time girlfriend, Jodia Ma, has made him one of the most eligible bachelors in town.

Last week, he was presumed to be dating one of the three daughters of McLaren co-owner Mansour Ojjeh.

He was then pictured coming out of a London cinema with another woman - his best friend's girlfriend.

But he said: "I'm supposedly dating one of Ojjeh's daughters, which is completely untrue, and then I went to the cinema with my best friend's fiancee. It's disappointing.

"When I came out of the cinema, I got almost bullied by these photographers because they wanted the pictures. Things like that make me not want to be in the UK."