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Flashback: Bahrain 2006 - Alonso edges desert duel

In what proved to be the prelude to a titanic season-long battle for the drivers’ title, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher opened the 2006 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season with a hard-fought battle for victory in Bahrain.In the blue corner was Renault’s Alonso, brimming with confidence having clinched his first world title less than six months earlier. In the red corner was seven-time world champion Schumacher, still smarting from an 'annus horribilis' in 2005 in which he and his once dominant Ferrari team had won just a single race - the US Grand Prix in which only six cars took the start.Heading into Bahrain though, Schumacher was confident that with the...
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