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Alonso: I'm stopping because I want to
While, elsewhere in the paddock, colleagues were lamenting his decision to quit the sport, countryman Carlos Sainz even insisting the move should serve as a warning to F1, Fernando Alonso was making clear that he has not been driven out but merely wants to move on. 'I stop because I want to, not because I am being forced to,' he told reporters, ahead of this weekend's Mexican Grand Prix. 'I want to stop because I achieved in F1 more than I dreamed of and it's time to achieve bigger things outside F1. 'In F1, there is always the feeling of here is the biggest thing in the world and if someone goes, people don't understand that maybe he wants to go,' he continued. 'They think he has to go...
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