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Alonso: "We didn't have the pace to score points"

In his penultimate race as an F1 driver, Fernando Alonso couldn’t get any higher than P17, but the Spaniard admitted that McLaren simply didn’t have the raw pace to get near the points in Brazil. The writing was on the wall when Alonso couldn’t qualify higher than P16. McLaren have stopped developing the MCL33 for some time now to focus on the 2019 car, meaning that performance has dropped significantly since then. Both papaya-orange cars rarely make it out of Q1 in qualifying now, and any point that is scored is seen as a massive victory. Nor Alonso nor Stoffel Vandoorne got anywhere near that. “You never know what’s going to happen, but today we were risking...
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