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Alonso: Recent progress doesn't make up for "very bad" year

Fernando Alonso has described McLaren’s 2017 Formula 1 season as “very bad”, saying the lowly results and frequent mechanical failures far overshadowed any of the campaign's positives. McLaren has endured a disappointing third F1 season in partnership with Honda, suffering a lack of power, reliability and results that leave it languishing ninth in the constructors’ championship with two races to go. Successful aerodynamic development of its 2017 chassis has left McLaren feeling it is close to matching Red Bull on certain circuits and “giggling” with excitement about its prospects for 2018 on the back of a switch to customer Renault engines. Alonso claimed McLaren now has the...
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