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Superstitious Alonso says track walks mean points on Sunday

Track walks were a rare occurrence for Fernando Alonso in the past, but this season, the Thursday stroll has led to some fairly good karma on race day for the Spaniard. Alonso indulged in his first track walk at Portimao, simply because he was unfamiliar with the Portuguese circuit, and subsequently finished the race P8. He didn't bother to take a trek around the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, a layout he could well drive with his eyes wide shut. Neither did he trudge around Monaco, for the same reason. However, he finished out of the points at both venues. But a run among the top-ten in Baku, where he had walked the track, convinced him that there was perhaps a lucky pattern to be...
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