Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"Alonso's attacking tactics reminded me of Alan Jones"
As we went into the closing laps of Sunday's European Grand Prix - for some daft reason, local motor racing politics determined it could not be the 'German Grand Prix' - the afternoon was looking pretty reasonable to Fernando Alonso.
True enough, in the dry conditions his McLaren-Mercedes couldn't quite live with Massa's Ferrari, but he was on course for eight points, and if that meant dropping a couple to Felipe, well, so be it. More important by far was that Kimi Raikkonen, winner of the two most recent races, and Lewis Hamilton, victorious in the two before that, were not going to score at all.
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