Amid the headline-grabbing upheaval at McLaren, their star driver Fernando Alonso is backing under pressure Zak Brown to lead the team back to the top of the grid despite the mid-season departure of heavy hitters Tim Goss and Eric Boullier. It would be fair to say that Alonso was one of the main reasons McLaren were persuaded to ditch a lucrative, albeit problem packed, Honda partnership and opt for the customer engine deal they now have with Honda. It seemed a good idea at the time (to them only?) but in retrospect, it was delusion thinking they would be challenging fellow Renault-powered Red Bull. McLaren were quickly exposed as the team concocted the toothless McLaren MCL33 and although...
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