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Alonso breaks Mercedes stranglehold

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso broke Mercedes' stranglehold at the top by setting the fastest time in Friday's first practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix. Alonso completed 20 laps of the 5.4 kilometre Shanghai International Circuit to end the morning session with a best time of one minute 39.783 seconds, as Ferrari's new Formula One bossMarco Mattiacci looked on. Nico Rosberg was second in his Mercedes with a time that was nearly four-tenths of a second off Alonso's session-topping effort. The German's teammate Lewis Hamilton, gunning for a hat-trick of wins this weekend, set the eighth fastest time on a cool and overcast morning in Shanghai. Daniel Ricciardo set the third quickest time...
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