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Fernando Alonso fears tough race after power unit change
Fernando Alonso says he is braced for a tougher-than-expected Bahrain Grand Prix after McLaren was forced to change the power unit in his MCL32 following another reliability issue during qualifying. Alonso suffered an MGU-H failure during Q2 and he was unable to complete a flying lap, leaving him down in 15th position. Honda is still investigating the cause of the failure, with the manufacturer also evaluating whether it was related to the MGU-H issue which halted Stoffel Vandoorne during practice. “I think until the last corner [my lap] was half a second better than my Q1 time, then I went on the throttle and there was an issue in the power unit,” said Alonso. “That...
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