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McLaren needed to take risks with new car - Whitmarsh

McLaren is confident the risks it has taken with its new car will pay off over the course of the season this year. The new MP4-28 is very different to last year's race-winning car and the team has admitted it had a few "headaches" understanding its behavior on degrading tyres at the cool winter tests. However, team principal Martin Whitmarsh is confident the new design will pay off in the long run. "Clearly we have taken some risks in changing the car from last year," he told the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone-in. "We finished last season with undoubtedly the quickest car and it would have been easy to continue to develop that car and make it quicker still for the...
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