Alonso Drove So Fast At Spa He Confused And Broke His McLaren Honda

It seems during qualifying for the Belgian GP, Fernando Alonso drove so quickly through a corner, it confused his McLaren Honda and completely broke it
Alonso Drove So Fast At Spa He Confused And Broke His McLaren Honda

Fernando Alonso is renowned for out-driving poor machinery and he’s had a lot of practice in Formula 1 recently, as McLaren and Honda’s struggles continue.

There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight for the issues the team and engine manufacturer are suffering, and he was forced to retire from Sunday’s Belgian GP because of a problem.

But, the day beforehand in qualifying, a very strange situation occurred, which cost Alonso the rare opportunity to make it through to the final session and battle for a spot in the top 10 on the grid.

Alonso Drove So Fast At Spa He Confused And Broke His McLaren Honda

Apparently, Alonso drove so quickly in his McLaren MCL32, that it caused the car to completely fail. That’s why he wasn’t able to complete his final hot lap.

What a waste, too, because he’d had a handy tow from his team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne on the back straight, as Vandoorne had a 65-place grid penalty due to the huge number of engine component changes.

After he aborted the lap, Alonso shouted “no power, no power” over team radio, indicating he’d suffered an issue and that’s why he slowed down.

Alonso Drove So Fast At Spa He Confused And Broke His McLaren Honda

McLaren said it was a deployment issue in Q2 (rather than Q3, which is stated in the tweet below) but it appears that was caused by Alonso going too quickly through the iconic Pouhon corner.

He took it flat, which confused the system and caused his car to break and not deploy ERS power as a result.

So, because Alonso drove flat-out through Pouhon, the deployment system in the Honda engine got completely mixed up and he ran out of power.

This really is peak McLaren Honda now. Sunday’s race didn’t go much better, he had a great start to move up to seventh but the lack of straightline speed meant he was basically a sitting duck.

Alonso quickly dropped back down the field, venting his frustration over team radio, and retired mid-way through the race with a power unit issue. Surprise, surprise…

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Comments

Peanut_guy

McLaren and broke are now two basic words in a sentence

08/27/2017 - 15:31 |
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AC2 - The Now 14 Year Old CTzen

In reply to by Peanut_guy

*Honda Race Engines

08/27/2017 - 16:41 |
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YRS2703

Alonso: I’m going fast!
McLaren Honda: What is fast? What does that word mean? I’M CONFUSED!!!

08/27/2017 - 15:36 |
462 | 2

Mclaren Honda is confused
IT HURTS ITSELF IN CONFUSION!

08/27/2017 - 17:01 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

In reply to by YRS2703

Senna disapproves.

08/27/2017 - 17:45 |
26 | 0

Error 312

McLaren-Honda at high speed,

Booting troubleshooter, running ReliabilityProblems.exe
Ending task DoingWell.exe

08/27/2017 - 19:35 |
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SAVAGE DOGG (Ping-Pong Gang) (Corvette Squad)

McLaren with VTEC kicked in too hard at the wrong time

08/27/2017 - 15:43 |
150 | 0

correct me if im wrong but RA617H is non-vtec ?

08/27/2017 - 17:13 |
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Joseph Le Corre

I reckon Alonso pushed the Power Off button and thought: “I’ll just say it was an engine failure!”

08/27/2017 - 15:50 |
90 | 4

LOL

08/27/2017 - 17:38 |
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Anonymous

His car must’ve been like:
“Wait, I’m going fast. I must have gotten stuck into the plane that got me here or something”

08/27/2017 - 16:08 |
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Anonymous

So high speed confuses a Honda…….. Ok, enuff said..

08/27/2017 - 16:13 |
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Anonymous

This is why man is better than machine. Perfect example.

08/27/2017 - 16:35 |
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Griffin Mackenzie

yooo 😂

08/27/2017 - 17:36 |
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gp24

Chuck Norris of motorsport

08/27/2017 - 21:10 |
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chrispva

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08/27/2017 - 21:48 |
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