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Alonso believes busy year kept him on top at McLaren

Fernando Alonso achieved the rare distinction of beating his McLaren team mate Stoffel Vandoorne in every single one of 2018's qualifying sessions. The last time that happened to a driver in Formula 1 was in 2008 when Nelson Piquet Jr suffered a similar drubbing at Renault. His team mate at the time? Fernando Alonso, of course. The two-time world champion believes that this time round he was helped by the fact that he has also been taking part in other championships away from F1 over the last two seasons. “Probably [the] testing day in IndyCar and the WEC programme this year, I feel a better driver, or a more complete driver," he explained. "The overall concepts of different...
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