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Alonso reverts to old chassis following Spa crash

Unsurprisingly, while Fernando Alonso may have escaped that horrific crash at La Source last weekend scot-free, the same cannot be said of his car. While his team will use Friday's opening session to assess whether there was damage to his engine, he has already had to revert to an older chassis. However, the Spaniard fears that there is also a shortage of latest-spec spares. 'It's a chassis I used in winter testing or the first races, so it's something that we already raced with but it is a new chassis,' he told reporters at Monza. 'On the engine side we think it could be OK but we will probably find out tomorrow in FP1. 'We want to put it in tomorrow to run on Friday and confirm that...
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