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Grid penalties for both McLaren drivers

Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne will both go into this weekend's Azerbaijan facing grid penalties with new MGU-Hs fitted in their cars. Honda have been plagued with MGU-H issues throughout this season with both drivers suffering several failures, Vandoorne's MGU-H failure in Montreal practice the most recent incident. As such Honda have brought an update to Baku with both drivers also running new turbochargers. Alonso will also be given a new internal combustion engine, his fourth of the year, while Vandoorne will receive a new power unit after FP2 and switch to a third combustion engine. 'We already have some penalties to start the weekend, which is not ideal but this is the...
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