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The F1 great who couldn't catch a break - part three: losing the faith

Luca Di Montezemolo was Ferrari president throughout Fernando Alonso's time with the team, and he remembers him, Michael Schumacher and Niki Lauda as "the three best drivers I have seen in the Ferrari team". "What I appreciated about Fernando is he was always a fighter, a fighter, a fighter," Di Montezemolo says. Alonso joined Ferrari after a two-year sojourn back at Renault. Twice in his first three years at Maranello, he lost out on the championship at the final race. Each time, he had got himself in that position despite not having the fastest car. "From mid-2010 to 2014," one Ferrari insider said, "Fernando was the best driver in the world. There's no...
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