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Alonso's sneak preview of Valencia

Fernando Alonso admitted that he has had a sneak preview of the all new street circuit at Valencia that will host the next round of the F1 calendar, the European Grand Prix. 

Alonso's preview comes in the form of a video of a lap of the track from on board a road car, provided to him by a friend who recently was at the F3 and GT weekend held at the circuit. 

"We don't have any simulator with that kind of possibility for learning a circuit," Alonso told Speed TV. "In my case it's only from video, pictures and I had a friend at the last race who did one lap with a normal road car, with a video camera in the front, just to know the track."

"But until you run with an F1 car on a new circuit, nothing you do is very useful, because you'll end up changing your opinion and feelings completely," he added. "The circuit seems very, very well prepared. There's obviously some work to do before F1 arrives, but it's not like a normal street track. It's something more, it seems wide, it seems like an American type of street circuit."

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