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The mega Toro Rosso vs Toro Rosso contest
In a Grand Prix utterly dominated by the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, there was hardly any dearth of action from the midfielders. While the likes of Norris, Raikkonen, and Gasly, firmly positioned in sixth, seventh, and eighth for the better part of the contest, were caught up in a scrap to take P6, there was no curtailing the drama taking place at just outside the top ten pack on the grid.
Going wheel-to-wheel, as if buried in an all-out attack on one another, Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat and rookie driver Alex Albon, someone who's impressed already this season were embroiled in a scrap for twelfth.
From the onset of Lap 18 to the completion of Lap 19, we saw two very fine drivers engage in a high-quality display of irrepressible and high-speed racing with Kvyat finally jostling ahead of his fighting teammate.
But it wasn't that Kvyat hadn't made the move earlier. Right at the start of Lap 18, the 'Torpedo' lunged into the inside of Albon down at Turn 2 to take the lead, only to see the Thai-British driver recover boldly to emerge ahead. The battle continued for another lap before eventually Kvyat cramped Albon for space and jumped ahead.
