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Winners: Alpine
Alpine had one unhappy driver on Sunday evening in Canada, after they instructed Esteban Ocon to cede position to Pierre Gasly to allow the latter to attack Daniel Ricciardo – and then didn’t ask Gasly to give the place back when he couldn’t get passed because it was, in the words of the team, “too risky”.
However, they will look back fondly on a Grand Prix where both cars scored points for the first time this season.
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Gasly’s ninth place was the team’s best result this year, while Ocon recovered eight places to score the final point (following a first Q1 exit since race two in Saudi Arabia).
Losers: Haas
This was one of Kevin Magnussen’s strongest weekends of the year, the Dane out-qualifying team mate Nico Hulkenberg for only the third time this season and then making up an astonishing 10 places in the opening few laps to run a sensational fourth as he made the most of being the only driver other than Hulkenberg to start on the full wet tyre.
However, a slow stop dropped him further back into the pack than hoped and he was unable to recover back into the top 10.
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