Alonso benefits from Hamilton's puncture to clinch second at Spain GP

FERNANDO Alonso took advantage of Lewis Hamilton’s bad luck to clinch second spot on the penultimate lap of the Spanish Grand Prix.

The Spaniard looked set to finish third before Britain’s Hamilton suffered an agonising puncture after a near-flawless drive.

Ferrari’s high-profile driver leapt up a place to finish behind winner, Australian Mark Webber in front of his home crowd in Barcelona.

Sebastian Vettel, Michael Schumacher, last-year’s champion Jenson Button and Felipe Massa completed the top six.

Spain’s Alonso explained: “It was a fantastic weekend for us, some unexpected positions. But we saw we need to improve the car.”

Despite his late retirement, Hamilton refused to be downbeat after a largely positive drive.

“I was just cruising to the finish line and it was great points for me, but then I blew a tyre,” said the 2008 world champion.

“That’s motor-racing, but it was quite a good race for me. I had really good fun out there.”

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Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

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After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

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