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Alonso plays down wheelnut incident
Within minutes of Fernando Alonso spinning off into the gravel at the final corner in Barcelona, shedding his right rear wheel in the process, the media kicked into action. While there had clearly been some sort of failure, and a couple of sharp-eyed photographers captured images of the Spaniard clutching the offending wheel retainer, he hadn't actually hit anything, which made the various headlines relating to his 'crash' seem a bit odd and needless. At the end of a session which saw him finish fifth on the timesheets having completed 51 laps - though this time was subsequently deleted after he was adjudged to have missed the chicane - the Spaniard was clearly miffed at the media...
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