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What Alonso learned from his best Dakar test yet

Double Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso took on one of his biggest challenges yet in the five-day Dakar warm-up event, Rally Morocco. Alonso gives his thoughts on his progress in a "bittersweet" event, and whether he will contest the Dakar

It's safe to say rolling his Toyota Hilux, breaking its windscreen and hitting a bird was not the perfect way for ex-McLaren Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso to begin his cross-country career.

But that was last month and South Africa. Last weekend he undertook his biggest challenge in the discipline yet in the Rally of Morocco.

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