Fernando Alonso was pleased to have been able to recover from an early setback after missing out on track time in first practice due to a brake issue on his McLaren F1 Team car. The Spaniard, making his first appearance at the Circuit de Monaco in two years, only completed sixteen laps in the morning sessions compared to his team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne’s thirty seven. Alonso bounced back in the afternoon after his mechanics fixed the problem to finish ninth in the afternoon but was fractionally slower than Vandoorne. 'A tough day.  'In the first session, I had an issue with the brakes and we lost most of the morning. “That was quite disappointing because you need as many laps as...
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