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Alonso engine issue under investigation

 XPB Images Jumping from the frying pan into the fire, Fernando Alonso endured a botched qualifying session, at least in terms of track time, as the Spaniard only a few hundred meters before calling it a day. Alonso stopped at the top of Eau Rouge in Q1 with a power unit problem, which was rotten luck for the McLaren driver although he was already due to start at the back of the grid following more component changes on the Honda engine. "We need to investigate what happened," Alonso said. "We saw a problem at the end of FP3 but didn't have time before qualifying to do a proper investigation. We did only 500 meters so there was definitely something really wrong....
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