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A swashbuckling Fernando Alonso beat Ferrari in Germany; now Lewis Hamilton should be worried. By MARK HUGHES It came so fast, an ambush from over the Eifel Mountains, a rainstorm of biblical proportions just as the racestart procedure had got under way. As fast as it came, it dried out. It left chaos in its wake, litters of cars in the gravel bed, a red flag, a suspended race, confusion about positions. Those who survived the carnage were left to fight out a relatively normal race, one in which Ferrari looked to have a slight edge over Fernando Alonso. Then the sting in the tail - another rain ambush seven laps from home, another throw of the dice for Alonso. He can't help himself. He has the essence of racer to his core. He can cover it up with a tactical approach - that's how he won his two titles - but sometimes it's just too damn tempting to fight. "I was happy with second. Eight points and both Lewis and Kimi were out of the points. For the championship it was good. So when it began to rain at first I was not happy." 'Why now?' he asked himself as he tiptoed back to the pits for his intermediate tyres, trailing in Felipe Massa's wake. © 2021 Autosport
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