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Zhou: 'Risky' first stint on hard tyres in Austria a mistake

Alfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu admitted after last weekend's Austrian Grand Prix that starting his race on the hard tyre was not only a risky choice but also one that was misguided. The Chinese charger started his race from P13 on the grid and ran as high as seventh in the first half of the event. But excessive degradation on the hards - a tyre also chosen by Yuki Tsunoda, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso - ultimately compromised his afternoon at the Red Bull Ring. Given a chance to do it all over again, Zhou would have opted for the medium compound tyre. "It wasn't the best weekend, but in the race I think the problem was just the hard tyres, we just couldn't switch them on," said...
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