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Alonso and Red Bull kick off the F1 mind games

Formula One's pre-season mind games kicked off on Tuesday with Fernando Alonso having a dig at Red Bull after one of Sebastian Vettel's main mentors accused the Ferrari driver of playing politics last year. Helmut Marko, a close advisor to Red Bull's billionaire owner Dietrich Mateschitz, contrasted triple world champion Vettel's attitude to Alonso's in an interview with the company's in-house Red Bulletin magazine. The Austrian said the 25-year-old German, who beat Alonso to the title last year, was a phenomenon who "shuts himself off from the rest of the world, so that he can still call on reserves that other drivers might not have". Alonso, by contrast, was "busy with...
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