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Alonso ranks Alpine win higher than Le Mans success

Fernando Alonso has described Alpine's unexpected victory in Hungary as being 'more special' than his successes in Le Mans. Alonso won two Le Mans 24 Hour races with Toyota when he took a break from Formula 1 but, in a frontrunning Toyota, he and his team-mates Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima were hotly tipped to succeed in the World Endurance Championship showpiece events. Esteban Ocon, meanwhile, led for 66 of the 70 laps in his midfield-running Alpine around Hungary to take his first F1 victory, which was also the first win for the Enstone team since Kimi Raikkonen took the chequered flag at the 2013 Australian Grand Prix, when they ran under the Lotus marque. And because of the...
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