Although Fernando Alonso outscored Stoffel Vandoorne last season, Zak Brown reckons the car played a big role in that as McLaren-Honda often only had one update available. Struggling in their final season with Honda power, Alonso and Vandoorne really only had one another as competition as the Woking was woefully off the pace. It was, however, an interesting tussle between the team-mates with Vandoorne holding the points advantage before Alonso put in a run of three top-ten results to close out the season. He outscored the Belgian driver 17 to 13th. Brown, though, says that may have more do with the car than with driver talent as he insisted that McLaren were happy with Vandoorne's...
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