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DRIVER MARKET: De Vries is under pressure at AlphaTauri, but is he really in danger of losing his seat already?
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Lawrence BarrettoTwo points. That’s all that separates rookie Nyck de Vries from his AlphaTauri team mate and veteran of 49 Grands Prix Yuki Tsunoda after five races this season. On the face of it, that is not a big deficit.
But delve into their pure on-track performance and the Dutchman is quite some way off the Japanese racer, who had to fight tooth and nail to convince Red Bull to keep him for a third successive year.
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