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<b>STAYING POSITIVE:</b> McLaren's Fernando Alonso skipped the Australian GP and was forced to retire early at Sepang. He remains positive however and says he has a long-term plan. <i>Image: AP / Vincent Thian</i>
<b>STAYING POSITIVE:</b> McLaren's Fernando Alonso skipped the Australian GP and was forced to retire early at Sepang. He remains positive however and says he has a long-term plan. <i>Image: AP / Vincent Thian</i>

LONDON, England - One word seemed to encapsulate Fernando Alonso's 2015 Malaysian GP weekend.

The comment, posted on Twitter under a photograph of Alonso walking in his McLaren overalls past the Ferrari garage and the Italian team's smiling mechanics, was simple: “Ouch!”

It was hard not to feel a twinge of pity for Alonso, who left Ferrari for McLaren at the end of 2014, as his former employers celebrated its first victory since 2013.

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