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Third is like a victory - Alonso
Fernando Alonso said finishing third in Sunday's United States Grand Prix was, for him, as good as a win after he had qualified only ninth for Ferrari on Saturday. He was soon after elevated to eighth because of a gearbox-change penalty for Frenchman Romain Grosjean of Lotus and, on Sunday, advanced another position – and to the clean right side of the grid – when his team decided to incur a penalty for Brazilian Felipe Massa by breaking the seal on his car's gearbox. It was a pragmatic strategic decision to give the two-time champion Spaniard a better chance at the start of the race and he grabbed it when the lights went out. "We know that our championship is alive thanks to the...
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