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Gearbox issues force early finish for Alonso
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Fernando Alonso confirmed that a gearbox problem on his McLaren-Honda were the reason why the team had decided to retire him from the Grand Prix of Europe nine laps before the finish. "We had an issue with the gearbox, that was getting worse and worse, so to avoid bigger issues, with the engine and other parts of the car, we had to retire. "We weren’t in the points so it wasn’t a very costly retirement." With the race lacking the mayhem and high numbers of retirements that many had been predicting, Alonso spent all but three laps of the race outside the top ten which he said was down to an lack of speed in the car, "As it always happens when we...
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