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Honda engine nightmare stripped bare

For some months now, McLaren-Honda drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button have pinpointed the Singapore Grand Prix as one of their best chances to score decent points this season. The beleaguered team's poor form in the last two races in Belgium and Italy resulted in a stormy news conference after qualifying in Monza, in which Honda F1 boss Yasuhisa Arai was given a severe grilling over his engine's lack of performance. Button, ever the politician, tried to put the situation into perspective. 'In two weeks' time,' he said, 'we could go to a race and be fighting for fifth and sixth place and we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.' So how can Alonso and Button be fighting for...
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