XPB Images Fernando Alonso will have a new Honda engine in his McLaren at next weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix after his first unit was heavily damaged in his Melbourne crash. The Spaniard was lining up Esteban Gutierrez to launch an attack at Turn 3 during the Australian GP when he clipped the rear left of the Haas. This first sent Alonso into the wall and then into a series of rolls with his car coming to a rest upside down in the gravel trap. The double world champion thankfully emerged unscathed from the shunt, but the same could not be said of his MP4-31, with only the survival cell remaining intact. According to several reports, Honda sent the power unit back to its...
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