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The party at Aston Martin lasted only a few seconds. When Fernando Alonso passed the finish line, all his mechanics jumped for joy, a miracle!, the pole was practically a fact. But the uproar suddenly ended. When Max Verstappen passed the finish line, the Spaniard's garage was plunged into silence, hands on his head, how could it be?
Alonso was close, very close, closer than ever this year to starting a race from the first position. In Monaco, the best place to do so, he was eight hundredths away from overtaking Verstappen and will start second, with a chance of victory. "I've touched the wall twice!" shouted the Dutchman at the end of the qualifying session. He was nervous. Alonso had pushed him into the abyss. In fact, for a few moments his mission seemed impossible. Before his last attempt, to risk everything in every corner, Verstappen was behind the Spaniard and only on the horn could beat him.
"It's been good. Obviously pole means a lot here in Monaco, but starting from the front row of the grid is also very big for us. I will try to win," Alonso said at the end of the session, before pressuring Verstappen again, this one with a microphone in his hand: "On this straight there is very little travel and it is difficult to gain a position, but Max is somewhat irregular in the starts and maybe tomorrow he will do badly. "
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