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Alonso: No magic but we'll try our best

Fernando Alonso says McLaren can copy some of their rivals' ideas, which would be a 'free' performance upgrade for 2016. The double World Champion is adamant McLaren-Honda can take a massive stride forward next season. He recently spoke of the possibility of the team gaining '2.5 seconds' in the off-season which he feels could put them on the winning path. Asked in Thursday's press conference how that could be possible, he said: 'The lack of performance we have in some areas of the car is from quite fundamental issues. 'They have not too difficult solutions. 'We need to copy some of the directions that everyone has apart from us. 'There's some time we can recover with not much penalty...
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