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Alonso: 'This was the year to split the trophy in two'

Fernando Alonso says newly crowned world champion Max Verstappen and runner-up Lewis Hamilton both deserved to win the world title this season. Verstappen prevailed in Abu Dhabi in the wake of a set of lucky circumstances that turned a race previously dominated by Hamilton on its head and dealt a wild hand of jokers to the Red Bull driver. Alonso, a two-time world champion who experienced several title shootouts in his career, says pure luck decided the outcome of last Sunday's dramatic epilogue. But overall, taking into account his achievements this season and his ten wins, Verstappen certainly deserved his maiden title. "Fantastic, he's a champion!" said the Spaniard. "It...
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