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Alonso: I couldn't get close enough to Ricciardo

Sutton Images Enlarge Fernando Alonso says his tyres made it impossible to get close enough to attack Daniel Ricciardo after he settled for fourth at the Singapore Grand Prix. Alonso used the mid-race safety car to pit and take on fresh prime tyres with a view to going until the end of the race, dropping him from second to fourth behind Sebastian Vettel and Ricciardo, who soon both decided to match Alonso's strategy of staying out. Alonso was on fresher tyres than the Red Bulls but only by a handful of laps each, meaning his advantage over Ricciardo was not enough to pass despite closing up the gap in the final laps "At the beginning we were thinking it was hard to go to the end with...
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