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Vandoorne: Focusing on beating Alonso "would be wrong"

McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne thinks it would be a mistake if he focused only on trying to beat Fernando Alonso in Formula 1 this season. The Belgian is replacing Jenson Button, and starts his first full season amid high expectations after a successful junior career and a point-scoring F1 debut at last year's Bahrain Grand Prix. But while there will be great interest in how he compares against two-time world champion Alonso, Vandoorne himself insists that the priority for him is not just edging out his Spanish teammate. "I get on very well with Fernando," Vandoorne said in an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com. "Of course I have been able to work with him for the past two...
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