Fernando Alonso felt eleventh on the grid was the best result he could have hoped for during qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix, and it will give the Spaniard a free choice of starting tyre on Sunday. The McLaren-Honda Formula 1 Team racer admits that the team have seemed to have lost a little bit of competitiveness in recent rounds, with the Woking-based team having fought for higher grid slots earlier in the season, but Alonso knows eleventh is a good place to be starting at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. “I think eleventh place was probably the best possible position we could dream of today in terms of race strategy, as we’ll have free choice of tyres tomorrow for the race...
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