Alonso calls Hamilton and Vettel gesture ‘magic’

Fernando Alonso said goodbye to Formula One on Sunday on the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Five-time world Champion Lewis Hamilton has won the race with a superb run from pole position.  Sebastian Vettel was in second for Ferrari and Max Verstappen was in third for Red Bull. Alonso said his final weekend was capped off by a “magic” gesture from Hamilton and Vettel. “It was magic, it was magic,” Alonso said. “The whole weekend has been amazing and the in-lap was not planned. I saw them doing doughnuts at Turn 8 and then I saw one car on the left and one car on the right and they kept going like this until the finish line. “It was a nice touch by them, so thank you, Sebastian, and thank you, Lewis. They are both great champions and I feel very privileged to race with them; it was a great race to be fighting with the Haas drivers to the very end.”

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