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Brown: McLaren won't seek to buy an Indy 500 entry

McLaren boss Zak Brown insists his team will not seek to buy out another team's entry into next Sunday's Indy 500. The Woking-based outfit and Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the blue riband event after yesterday's dramatic shootout which saw six contenders battle for a spot on the last row of the grid. Alonso was on the bubble in third position, preceded by SPM's James Hinchcliffe and Dreyer and Reinbold's Sage Karam, but the Spaniard was unexpectedly gunned down by final runner Kyle Kaiser driving for the small Juncos outfit. Alonso will always prefer to try, and fail, then stay at home While IndyCar's regulations allow for a team to buy a rival's qualified entry, Brown clearly...
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