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Honda ‘ashamed' of Alonso's Japan GP penalty
Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa says he is 'very ashamed' that Fernando Alonso was hit with a grid penalty for yet another engine change, and at Honda's home race. Alonso will start Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix from the very back of the grid after incurring a 35-place grid penalty. Honda discoverd a hydraulic leak after Friday's practice and opted to change his engine. With an eighth ICE, 10th turbo and MGU-H, and eighth MGU-K, seventh battery, and sixth control electronics unit, the Spaniard was guaranteed a back of the grid start much to Honda's embarrassment. 'I'm very ashamed,' Hasegawa told Autosport. 'We didn't have an engine failure, we had some hydraulic leakage, which we can...
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