SPIELBERG, Austria -- Fernando Alonso had a 2017-spec front wing fitted to his McLaren as he made his way from a pit lane start to eighth place at the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday.
After teammate Stoffel Vandoorne broke two front wings on Austria's high kerbs in practice and Alonso broke another in qualifying, the team ran out of new-spec wings to fit to the car ahead of Sunday's race. Under parc ferme regulations, a change of wing specification between qualifying and the race is punished by a pit lane start and therefore Alonso dropped from his 13th-place starting position to the very back of the field.