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De Vries didn't get ‘fair chance' in F1

Dec.11 Nyck de Vries didn't get a 'fair chance' to shine in Formula 1, according to fellow Dutchman Tom Coronel. Alpha Tauri owner Red Bull decided to oust the underperforming 28-year-old Dutch rookie mid-season, but Coronel thinks de Vries was actually caught up in Red Bull's internal wrangling. 'It only lasted ten races,' Coronel, a charismatic pundit and well-known Dutch racing driver, told the Dutch magazine Formule 1. 'I don't think he had a fair chance. He should have finished the year,' he insisted. 'Nyck made mistakes and some of them were bad, 100 percent. But I did see improvement. 'He just wasn't able to peak and that's a shame.' Coronel thinks de Vries, who has now returned to...
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