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McLaren unfazed by lack of pace

McLaren are adamant that as long as they can get on top of their reliability issues, their Honda-powered car will have the performance needed. McLaren-Honda debuted the new MP4-30 at Jerez this past week, spending four days lapping the Spanish circuit. But while some teams covered more than 100 laps in one day, McLaren managed just 79 the entire test. Added to that Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso were slowest of the 16 drivers in action, 6.8s and 14.7s off the pace respectively. The team, though, is not at all concerned by the lack of pace, revealing they had not been running their Honda engine at full power. Engineering director Matt Morris told BBC Sport: 'We are not running at maximum...
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