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Alonso: Honda cures unreliability but pace unknown
Fernando Alonso feels McLaren-Honda has made an improvement with both the performance and reliability of its power unit in 2016 and has learnt from some of its mistakes from last season. The two-time F1 world champion endured a hellish year upon his return to McLaren as its reuniting with Honda turned into a disappointment as the Japanese manufacturer failed to produce a reliable and fast power unit within the complex V6 Hybrid regulations. Under those regulations McLaren used over double the amount of permitted engines for a season and racked up farcical number of grid penalties as a result. The unreliable and under-performing engines rarely allowed Alonso and team-mate Jenson Button to...
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