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Honda lament 'very sad & tough day'
McLaren-Honda's engine woes continued on Saturday despite Honda's expending a significant number of tokens to improve both performance and reliability. Jenson Button missed qualifying entirely with an ERS issue, while Fernando Alonso would have missed all of FP3 after needing to install a fourth internal combustion engine were it not for the session's multitudinous red flags. 'Today was a very sad day, a very tough day,' Honda motorsport head Yasuhisa Arai said. 'After the P2 routine inspection, we found some issue [with Alonso's engine]. I decided it was a vital risk, so we changed the strategy. Jenson, before the end of P3, encountered some ERS trouble, and there was some damage to the...
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