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Brown: 2018 doubts started pre-season

– McLaren chief Zak Brown says the team's initial doubts over continuing with Honda into 2018 were raised during the partnership's pre-season campaign, which was blighted by problems.McLaren and Honda confirmed the expected news on Friday that the parties will split at the end of the season by mutual consent, with McLaren switching to Renault and Honda linking with Toro Rosso.McLaren entered 2017 confident of progress, with Honda revising its power unit layout, but the outfit took a step back pre-season, when a sequence of issues hindered its prospects.Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne often found themselves towards the foot of the timesheets, and bottom of the mileage charts,...
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