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McLaren ‘astonished' by lack of qualy pace
Falling short of their goal of making it into Q3 in Bahrain, Eric Boullier says there will be a 'big investigation' at McLaren as they don't know why they lacked pace. Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne will start Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix 13th and 14th on the grid. Alonso only just made it into Q2, saved by the fact that he set his lap time before Romain Grosjean set his, matching the Spaniard's. As such Alonso progressed, Grosjean fell out. But even with the lifeline the double World Champion, and his team-mate, didn't have the pace to enter the pole position shoot-out. “Obviously it’s a bit of a surprise, based on the pace we had in FP3,” Boullier told Sky F1....
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