Mark Hughes: Trackside View
"On supersofts Alonso's style is working better"
The first 12 minutes after the track opens and no-one has yet completed a flying lap. Most have done their installations - Lewis Hamilton extrovertly sideways well before the first swimming pool apex - but are now waiting in the garages for the track to get hotter.
Ideally they need someone out there rubbering it in too, though no-one wants to be the first, the sweeper, the fluffer. But it's calling out to one man and he can resist no longer. Jarno Trulli's affinity with the place is deep.
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