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New power unit needed for Alonso

Fernando Alonso confirmed his doomed MCL32 required a new power unit after his 'blew up' in Q2 at the Bahrain Grand Prix. The two-time World Champion was about to try and make it through to the top ten shootout, but was soon spotted leaving the garage completely as yet more reliability issues struck the Woking team. 'We broke the power unit,' Alonso said to Sky Sports F1. 'My lap was good; until the last corner I was like half a second better than in Q1, but then I went on the throttle and it [the engine] blew up, so unfortunately that's the situation. 'We had the possibility to be a couple of places better than what we are. 'For tomorrow we'll fit a new power unit with not the perfect...
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