Fernando Alonso had undoubtedly hoped for more than a seventh place in his home Grand Prix. The Aston Martin driver came no further than P9 in qualifying a day earlier, which effectively ended his podium chances right from the start. To GPblog and others, he looked back on his race. Article continues under ad "At the beginning we didn't have a plan, to be honest, because we were not sure about the degradation," said Alonso. The Spaniard started on softs and drove quite a few laps on the red tyre, before going in for another set of softs. Lance Stroll was also on the move on that strategy, but all the other 18 drivers were not. So why this choice? "On the first stint, George...
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