WATCH: Third-time lucky - how Alex Albon put near misses behind him with podium-sealing pass
He tried it in Brazil 2019 and was denied. He tried it again in Austria this year and was denied. But it was a case of third-time lucky for Alex Albon in Mugello, as the Red Bull driver finally made an around-the-outside pass for a podium slot stick. Re-live all three moments in the video above, from the heartbreak of contact with Hamilton at Interlagos and Spielberg, to the sweet success of passing Renault's Daniel Ricciardo for third in the Tuscan Grand Prix - and a first taste of F1 champagne.
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