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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Gabriel Bortoleto earns a full-time seat with Sauber Sauber ended months of speculation on Wednesday, filling out their driver lineup for the 2025 Formula 1 season. Welcome to the grid, Gabriel Bortoleto. After announcing back in the sprint that veteran driver Nico Hülkenberg would move to the team for the 2025 season, a year before Sauber becomes the Audi ...2024
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• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images At the F1 Mexico City Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas admitted that a return to Mercedes as a reserve could be on the table With the 2024 Formula 1 season winding down, there are a few small matters of business left to be decided regarding the 2025 driver grid. One of those seats? The second spot at Sauber alongside Nico Hülkenberg. While the team has already c...2024
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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Ferrari tops the list of winners and losers from the F1 United States Grand Prix AUSTIN — The joyful smiles in the paddock told the story of Ferrari’s week in Austin. The team arrived in Texas for the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix facing questions about their car, and whether Ferrari could turn the McLaren-Red Bull duet at the top of the Construct...2024
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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix

Photo by Clive Rose - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Recapping winners and losers from qualifying at the Singapore Grand Prix, and wondering if this was Daniel Ricciardo’s swan song A hard shunt from Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz Jr. at the start of Q3 left nine drivers remaining, each with perhaps just one shot at glory Saturday night at the Singapore Grand Prix. Only Oscar Piastri an...2024
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• Zhou Guanyu’s epic Singapore Grand Prix helmet features his cat

F1 driver Zhou Guanyu might have taken the lead in this season’s themed helmet contest Theme helmets are not new to the world of Formula 1. Over the years drivers have paid tribute to local customs, personal projects, causes that matter to them, and many more items of inspiration. However, Sauber driver Zhou Guanyu might be wearing the best effort yet this weekend. Ahead of this week’s Singapore G...2024
• Charles Leclerc conquers the Baku streets as Ferrari takes the fight to the field

Photo by Clive Rose - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images Disaster for Lando Norris, disappointment for Red Bull, and pole for Charles Leclerc in Azerbaijan Over the past few Formula 1 race weekends, the discussion has centered on a two-way fight between Red Bull and McLaren for the Constructors’ Championship. Well, it is time to make room at the table for a third team, because Ferrari ha...2024
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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix
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• Charles Leclerc conquers the Baku streets as Ferrari takes the fight to the field
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines

Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images F1 heads to Baku with McLaren chasing Red Bull, Lando Norris chasing Max Verstappen, and Sauber chasing their first points of the season What a difference a year makes. The last time the Formula 1 grid was in Baku for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the field looked a lot different than it does at the moment. In 2023 the Azerbaijan Grand Prix fell in April, a...2024
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Recapping the winners and losers from the Dutch Grand Prix The detractors did not go away in May. After Lando Norris broke through with his maiden Formula 1 victory in the Miami Grand Prix, shedding the harsh “Lando No-wins” moniker, the detractors still had their lines of criticism. They pointed to an opportune safety car, which gave Norri...2024
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• F1 title fight leads major storylines at the Dutch Grand Prix

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images As F1 comes back from the summer shutdown there are no shortage of storylines 42 points. As Formula 1 returns from its summer shutdown for this week’s Dutch Grand Prix, just 42 points separate Red Bull from McLaren in the Constructors’ Championship standings. Buoyed by a fast race car and a pair of fast drivers, McLaren built off their stro...2024
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• F1’s 10 best moments of the 2024 season so far, ranked

Photo by Peter Fox - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images As the second half of the 2024 F1 season looms, a look back at the magical first half of the campaign The long Formula 1 summer shutdown is finally, perhaps painfully, drawing to a close. The reason for that pain? It lies in just how wonderful the first half of the season has been. Next week the grid will roar back to life, as the s...2024
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• Mercedes F1 forced to fix computer systems at Hungarian GP after CrowdStrike outage

Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images The Microsoft, CrowdStrike outage even impacted the F1 world A major computer outage is impacting the entire planet this Friday, as Microsoft systems crashed due to a failed content update from security platform CrowdStrike. The crash led to flight cancellations, bank systems going down, and even impacted ESPN’s morning broadcasts of “SportsCenter” an...2024
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• 7 burning questions for the British Grand Prix

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images F1 is coming off a thrilling Austrian Grand Prix, but what awaits the grid at historic Silverstone? One of the most climactic moments in recent Formula 1 memory took place just a few short days ago when an on-track battle between Lando Norris and Max Verstappen — that has been brewing for weeks — finally boiled over. A collision between the two on Lap 64 of...2024
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• Max Verstappen roars past Lando Norris again in F1 Sprint Qualifying

Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images F1 Sprint Qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix sees another Lando Norris-Max Verstappen fight shaping up The roar told the story Following the checkered flag in SQ3, it looked as if McLaren had locked out the front row. Oscar Piastri put his MCL38 on provisional pole with a banger of a lap, only to see Lando Norris nip him with ...2024
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"Sauber currently has Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas in the fold, but both drivers are set to see their contracts expire at the end of the 2024 campaign."

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"The signs were there for a strong weekend from Alfa Romeo on Friday, when both Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas posted the two best times of the day among drivers on the medium compound."

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"Zhou Guanyu was worried he would be trapped upside down in a burning car after his huge crash at the British Grand Prix last week."

• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• F1 title fight leads major storylines at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• F1’s 10 best moments of the 2024 season so far, ranked
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• Predicting the rest of the 2025 F1 driver grid

Photo by Joe Portlock - Formula 1/Formula Motorsport Limited via Getty Images Carlos Sainz Jr.’s decision to drive for Williams cuts the number of available seats down to four. How will they get filled? The cork in the bottle that was Carlos Sainz Jr. has been removed Now we wait to see how that moment impacts the rest of the Formula 1 grid. On the first day of the sport’s annual summer s...2024
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• What’s next for Logan Sargeant?

Photo by Clive Rose - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images With Williams announcing that Carlos Sainz Jr. will join the team next season, what is next for F1’s only American driver? In the Rainbow Room in early February, Logan Sargeant looked me in the eyes and told me what a successful 2024 Formula 1 season would look like for him. “It’s always one of the hardest questions at the start of...2024
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• 7 burning questions for the British Grand Prix
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• Zhou Guanyu addresses his F1 future

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images Speaking at the FIA Press Conference ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix Zhou Guanyu talked his F1 future Two more pieces of the 2025 Formula 1 driver grid were put into place on Thursday. Alpine announced a new “multi-year” deal with Pierre Gasly, and Aston Martin confirmed a long-expected deal with Lance Stroll that extends into 2025 “and beyond.” That news ...2024
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• Lando Norris’ ‘perfect’ lap snares pole from Max Verstappen at F1 Spanish Grand Prix

Photo by Mark Sutton - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images A thrilling qualifying session at the Spanish Grand Prix illustrates just how tight the F1 field is in 2024 “Lando Norris with perhaps one of the finest laps he’s turned in a Formula 1 car.” That was the description from Alex Jacques in the commentary box on F1TV after the checkered flag flew at the end of qualifying. And if Satur...2024
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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix
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• Charles Leclerc conquers the Baku streets as Ferrari takes the fight to the field
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• Valtteri Bottas on whiskey, his F1 future, and the ‘joy’ of being a race car driver

SB Nation spoke exclusively with Valtteri Bottas about the 2024 F1 season, the ‘joy’ of being a driver, and WhistlePig The continued growth of Formula 1 worldwide — as well as in the United States — has been attributed to the Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive. Whatever the merits are regarding that argument, one of the aspects of that series that drove the growth of the sport worldwide is the i...2024
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines
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• Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri dominate qualifying at the F1 Italian Grand Prix

Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images A dream Saturday for McLaren, a nightmare scenario for Red Bull, and more from a thrilling qualifying at Monza For the first time since 2012, the front row at the Italian Grand Prix will be orange. McLaren orange. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri locked out the front row with a tremendous performance in Saturday’s qualifying session at Monza, and...2024
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• Lando Norris storms to the front in qualifying at the F1 Dutch Grand Prix

Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images Max Verstappen is lurking, but Lando Norris will start up front at the Dutch Grand Prix This week McLaren brought a host of upgrades to the Dutch Grand Prix, their first big set of improvements to the MCL38 since the Miami Grand Prix. Lando Norris captured his maiden Formula 1 Grand Prix victory that week, and if Saturday is any indication, he is on a path ...2024
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• F1 title fight leads major storylines at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• F1’s 10 best moments of the 2024 season so far, ranked
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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto
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• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver
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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix
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• Charles Leclerc conquers the Baku streets as Ferrari takes the fight to the field
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• Valtteri Bottas on whiskey, his F1 future, and the ‘joy’ of being a race car driver
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines
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• Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri dominate qualifying at the F1 Italian Grand Prix
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• Lando Norris storms to the front in qualifying at the F1 Dutch Grand Prix
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• Lewis Hamilton grabs pole and more winners and losers from qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix
Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images Hamilton was one of the big winners from qualifying on Saturday at the Hungaroring In recent weeks, qualifying sessions have provided some thrills for Formula 1 fans. Saturday in Budapest was no different. Qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix is in the books, and for just the second time this year a non-Red Bull car will be at the front of the grid. L...2023
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• Guanyu becomes Special Olympics ambassador

Alfa Romeo driver Zhou Guanyu has become a global ambassador for Special Olympics, it was announced on Friday....2023
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• Max Verstappen makes history for Red Bull at the Hungarian Grand Prix
Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images With yet another win, the F1 team puts their name atop the record books Despite facing some questions coming into the Hungarian Grand Prix after a somewhat disappointing qualifying session, Red Bull secured yet another win as Max Verstappen pulled away from the field. And raced the team into the record books. The win is the team’s 12th-straight victory, dat...2023
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• Nyck de Vries’ sacking shows the brutal truth of life in F1
Photo by Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images The Daniel Ricciardo news is the latest example that life in F1 can be cruel It was a stunning debut at the Italian Grand Prix last year. Pressed into action when Alex Albon suffered appendicitis on the Saturday ahead of the final practice session, Nyck de Vries slid into Albon’s FW44 for Williams and advanced to Q2 despite limited practice time...2023
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• Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu, and Alfa Romeo ‘confident they can win their battle’

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Alfa Romeo has a clear goal for the rest of the F1 season, and believe they can pull it off The first half of the 2023 Formula 1 season did not match expectations for Alfa Romeo. The team managed just nine points over the first 11 races of the season, and currently sit in ninth place in the Constructors’ Standings, ahead of only AlphaTauri....2023
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• Why Nico Hülkenberg is joining Sauber, and what it means for the rest of the F1 grid

Photo by Song Haiyuan/MB Media/Getty Images A much anticipated move came to fruition on Friday. Here’s what it could do to the rest of the grid The latest domino in the Formula 1 driver transfer market has fallen. A long-anticipated move has come to fruition, as Nico Hülkenberg will depart Haas at the end of the current season to drive for Sauber next year. The reason for the anticipation?...2024
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• Zhou Guanyu keeps his seat as Alfa Romeo F1 confirms their 2024 driver lineup

Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images Alfa Romeo confirmed their driver lineup for 2024, retaining both Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas The number of available Formula 1 driver spots for the 2024 lineup is now down to three. Alfa Romeo confirmed on Thursday that they are retaining their current lineup for the 2024 season. While Valtteri Bottas was already under contract through the 2024 campaig...2023
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• 7 F1 takeaways from day 2 of 2024 pre-season testing

Photo by Philippe Nanchino/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images More ominous signs from Red Bull, some racing, and “aggressive’ moves paying off for Sauber? With Max Verstappen sitting out Thursday’s dual testing sessions, the Formula 1 grid was open for another driver, or perhaps another team, to enjoy some glory in Bahrain. As the day turned to night, it was the Tifosi who dreamed the bigge...2024
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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto
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• Valtteri Bottas would ‘consider’ a return to Mercedes as a reserve driver
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• Charles Leclerc and Ferrari shake up the 2024 F1 season with stunning United States GP win
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• Lando Norris captures pole, but Max Verstappen is lurking at Singapore Grand Prix
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• Zhou Guanyu’s epic Singapore Grand Prix helmet features his cat
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• Charles Leclerc conquers the Baku streets as Ferrari takes the fight to the field
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• Valtteri Bottas on whiskey, his F1 future, and the ‘joy’ of being a race car driver
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines
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• Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri dominate qualifying at the F1 Italian Grand Prix
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• Sauber completes their driver lineup for 2025 F1 season with Gabriel Bortoleto
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• Ferrari’s comeback, Oliver Bearman’s return, and more F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix storylines
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• Lando Norris puts the entire F1 grid on notice at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• F1 title fight leads major storylines at the Dutch Grand Prix
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• Daniel Ricciardo not making any proclamations after frustrating Saturday for VCARB at the British Grand Prix

Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo will have some work to do Sunday if VCARB is going to leave Silverstone with something to show for their efforts A week ago at the Austrian Grand Prix, Daniel Ricciardo delivered a bold statement despite missing out on the third segment of qualifying. Ricciardo outlined how the RB01 was a “top ten” car despite his eli...2024
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• 7 burning questions for the British Grand Prix
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• Max Verstappen roars past Lando Norris again in F1 Sprint Qualifying
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• Lando Norris’ ‘perfect’ lap snares pole from Max Verstappen at F1 Spanish Grand Prix
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• What does the 2025 F1 driver lineup look like?

Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports How has the F1 silly season unfolded so far, and what moves are yet to come? The 2024 Formula 1 season made history for the sport when the first race began. When the lights went out to start the Bahrain Grand Prix, it was the first time in F1 history that the drivers who ended the previous season were the same exact drivers — in the same exact spots — when the ...2024
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• Alpine’s options for replacing Esteban Ocon, ranked by likelihood

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Who could replace Esteban Ocon at Alpine for 2025? WIth Monday’s news that Alpine and Esteban Ocon were parting ways at the end of the 2024 Formula 1 season, much of the start to Canadian Grand Prix week focused on where Ocon could land for 2025. Now we can turn to the options for replacing him at Alpine for 2025. How Alpine handles this de...2024
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