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Alonso risked going into wall with ‘all out' approach
Fernando Alonso told his Alpine team that he was going for it at the race restart in Baku, even if he ended up in the wall. A late tyre failure for Max Verstappen, the second such incident of the afternoon, led to a standing restart of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with only a few laps remaining. What followed was a mad dash to the line as drivers squabbled to gain late places, and Alonso was one of the biggest gainers, going from P10 to P6 at the chequered flag. The Spaniard simply went for it, just as he had told Alpine that he would during the interval. 'I talked to the team before the restart and I said ‘Look, we're going to go all out, if there's any gap, I'm going to get in. If we...
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