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McLaren confident Alonso will be on Melbourne grid
McLaren boss Eric Boullier is confident the Woking team will not be without its star driver Fernando Alonso for the Australian Grand Prix season opener in two weeks. The recovering Fernando Alonso's last-minute substitute at the final Barcelona test this week was Kevin Magnussen, who managed just 39 laps on Saturday before more technical trouble struck for the newly Honda-powered MP4-30. He admitted he is not sure he would be ready to step into Alonso's race seat in Melbourne. 'It would be difficult,' said the Dane, 'as I have not had a dedicated team of engineers to talk to about the car every day.' Given the coup of luring the highly-rated Alonso from Ferrari to spearhead the new...
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