Well, maybe you haven't taken in account that the first time Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikönnen were head to head on similar cars, back in 1996, I believe, in the World Kart Junior Championship, Alonso beat Kimi. This would suffice, even if you do not look at the results of the last two F1 world championships.
After that, you can forgive him if he forget to mention the hyper-promoted, less atractive as adversary, Mr. Räikönnen, that has had many times the advantage of the best cars of the grid at his disposition, and that, at least now, suffers, in a certain way, of "the Button syndrome".
After all, Alonso has climbed the ladder from the back of the grid and when you are in this position, I guess, you tend to think that the guys at the front only have better wheels.
Being a spaniard, Alonso could pick carefully worthy adversaries because it is a motto that "friends come and go, but enemies acumulate".
The best enemies are enemies that are far away!
This, and the fact that Kimi could be teammate of Alonso, allows Fernando to give him a little pinprick and a way to avoid conflicts by not mentioning him, even before driving the first McLaren. But I don't think Alonso is that machiavelic.
And then, you have the legends. You can say anything about Schumacher, but what you have to concede is that everybody (including yourself) is talking about him: this is the stuff legends are made from. Alonso really admires Schumacher, like all you should and I do. He simply (like some of us) wants him beaten. At least once in a while.
