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Video: McLaren fires up its new Renault engine

Anyone who has seen Grand Prix Driver on Amazon will be aware that from the outset, McLaren's 2017 season was clearly doomed. Having encountered various issues marrying up the all-new Honda engine to the MCL32, the initial fire-up was a dismal failure as there appeared to be an issue with the electrics resulting in the team having to fire up the car manually. No such issues a year later for the Woking team, albeit with a new engine partner, having dumped Honda and its Yen in favour of a customer deal with Renault. Two days after Toro Rosso fired up the Honda, subsequently joking that all went well despite the continuing pessimism in the media surrounding the project, McLaren fired up its...
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