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McLaren-Honda expecting to struggle for ‘a few races’

McLaren-Honda is expecting to struggle through the opening few races of the season. While the rest of the sport gets up to speed for the second year of F1's challenging new ‘power unit' era, the newly Honda-powered team is struggling not only for pace but also simply to run the new MP4-30. But with Fernando Alonso still recovering from his Barcelona crash a week ago, reserve Kevin Magnussen got his first taste of the 2015 package on Saturday and declared it better than last year's Mercedes-powered car. 'It is a good base,' he said, 'and feels more consistent, stable and predictable than its predecessor. The driveability is better. 'Last year's car was very pointy and hard to drive,'...
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