Fernando Alonso says the new McLaren-Honda project is now on the verge of being able to score points. "We did not have a good start to the season," Yasuhisa Arai, the F1 boss of the struggling Japanese manufacturer Honda, told Speed Week. "The path to the summit is steep. But we have left base camp now," he smiled. Indeed, although an awful weekend of reliability in Bahrain for Jenson Button meant he could not even take to the grid, teammate Alonso left the island Kingdom declaring that Q3 is the target for Barcelona. McLaren and Honda are preparing significant upgrades for the first European race of the season. "We are on the verge of points now," said Alonso,...
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