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Alonso: I was driving like all the animals
It was always going to be a tough ask for McLaren in China, but Fernando Alonso refused to buckle as he threw everything he had into his qualifying lap which saw him finish 13th on the timing screens a half second faster than his teammate Stoffel Vandoorne. The Spaniard delivered a gutsy display, in the woeful underpowered McLaren Honda, throwing caution to the wind as he flung the car around Shanghai International Circuit. Over the team radio Alonso declared, 'I was driving like all the animals. It is when you don’t care any more whether you have a snap or a spin or whatever.' “We felt really non-competitive in FP3 so we went into Q1 with pessimism in the targets. I did the lap flat...
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