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Alonso claims new new Honda engine not much better

Fernando Alonso was not been very impressed McLaren-Honda's apparent recent progress after the United States Grand Prix. Using Honda's token-upgraded ‘power unit' for the first time in a race, the Spaniard had fought his way from dead last to fifth when reliability trouble struck. 'If we had finished fifth I think it would have been the best race of my career,' he told Spanish reporters including the news agency EFE. But Alonso was also keen to bring feet back to earth, amid excitable reports about the improved performance of the revised Honda engine and lofty ambitions for 2016. 'The better performance of the engine is something that has been talked about a lot, but to put the...
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