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Alonso hails 'perfect weekend'

It was another "perfect weekend" for Ferrari according to Fernando Alonso, after he won the Spanish Grand Prix from fifth place on the grid.No driver had previously won at the Circuit de Catalunya from so far back but then Alonso has made quite a habit of making up ground. Armed with an F138 that always seems to come good on Sundays, he was in the lead by lap 13 and overcame the challenge of Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen to win his home race for the second time. Speaking after qualifying, Alonso expressed the hope he could banish the record the race had of producing winners who had qualified on the front row. Only once - Michael Schumacher, who qualified third in 1996 - had a driver...
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