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McLaren's wet weather gamble failed to come off
McLaren opted to gamble with Fernando Alonso and put on the intermediate tyres a few minutes before the heavy rain was due to hit Hockenheim. The ran never came and gamble failed but Alonso admits they “had to try something” during the German Grand Prix to get a top 10 finish. The Spaniard eventually retired from the race as engineers spotted something on the data. The Woking-based team have fallen to 7th place in the constructors' championship having once held 4th place in the early stages of the year. “It was a tricky race,” Alonso said in an interview on motorsport week. “We bet on the rain and at the first drops, we pitted for intermediate tyres,...
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