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Our race pace is better than our qualifying pace - McLaren
McLaren expect to score points on Sunday with at least one car, despite both starting outside the top ten, as they feel their race pace is much better than their one-lap qualifying pace. Fernando Alonso starts the United States Grand Prix from P12, whilst team-mate Jenson Button starts P19, having struggled for pace with traffic a particular problem for the Briton. Nonetheless, both team boss Eric Boullier and Alonso believe a points finish is possible with their race pace. 'Fernando drove a near-perfect Q2 lap here in Austin today – but, even so, he narrowly failed to go through to Q3, missing out by just 0.169s, ending up 12th. 'However, our car is more competitive...
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