Looking ahead to Saturday's qualifiers, McLaren driver Fernando Alonso is confident of gaining a Q3 berth after their promising showing during Friday's practice. Trying to capatilise on an unusual data reading, McLaren-Honda decided to change Alonso’s power unit between the two practice sessions, with the replacement being four races old. As a result of the change, the Spaniard missed the first part of FP2 but concluded the session in P7, the same place he achieved in the opening session. 'The first session went rather well, there were no issues, but while we were in the technical meeting a Honda engineer came up to tell us it would be better to change the power unit,' the double...
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