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Alonso was 'driving over the limit' in final Q2 push
Fernando Alonso has explained why he threw caution to the wind and attempted to run through the final corner of the Red Bull Ring flat-out during the second round of qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix. His McLaren team mate Stoffel Vandoorne had already been eliminated at the end of Q1, and Alonso was now battling to avoid the same fate at the end of Q2. It looked like his final run might have been enough to put the Spaniard into the top ten. But he came into the treacherous final corner at such a high speed that he wasn't able to keep the MCL33 on the track. “On my final lap, I was two tenths slower than on my previous lap," Alonso explained afterwards. "For the final two...
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