Lance Stroll's nightmare season hit DNF number thirteen in Brazil, another battery failure cutting his race short after 30 laps while running dead last. Honda's stumped. Trackside boss Shintaro Orihara admitted they know what happened but not why, and finding the root cause could take weeks. The same gremlins struck Stroll's car in both Saturday and Sunday running—echoes of the early-season vibration issues that left the AMR26 unable to finish races without battery breaks. Reliability improved mid-year, but the last three rounds have brought the failures back in force. Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso qualified top-ten in the wet—conditions that masked the Honda power unit's shortcomings—then dropped to twelfth when the track dried. Orihara's takeaway: drivability still needs work, and the battery mystery has to be solved before 2027 or Stroll's DNF count will keep climbing.
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