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Hasegawa: I'm not sure but anyway it was a system failure

It was another weekend of utter misery for Fernando Alonso and McLaren, as the Spaniard did not even make it to the start of the Russian Grand Prix as his power unit expired on the formation lap, the cause of the failure is still being investigated by Honda who appear to not have a clue why their engines are so slow and fickle. Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa said after the race, 'As soon as he was going on the parade lap we noticed a system failure with the ERS – the MGU-H wasn't working. We tried the procedure to clear the failure but it wasn't a success, so then we tried a power cycle, a complete reset, but it made the car stop.' 'It was an option [to come back to the pits] but it...
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