McLaren Honda Fernando Alonso says reaching Q2 is possible for McLaren at this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix but has played down such achievements, believing that overall progress is more important. McLaren has yet to escape Q1 during this year's qualifying sessions but Alonso has stressed that the squad's first priority is to develop its Honda-powered MP4-30 as effectively as possible. "The cars are very similar to China because there’s only four days from there to here," he said when asked by F1Zone.net if Q2 was a reasonable target for the squad. "Performance won’t change so much, but if track characteristics and weekend goes well for us I think Q2 is possible, but...
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