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Rival team reneged on deal to sign Magnussen
Kevin Magnussen was supposed to drive for a rival team in 2014, not McLaren, team principal Martin Whitmarsh has revealed. The young Danish driver will replace Sergio Perez at McLaren next season to partner Jenson Button, but according to Whitmarsh, he had "shook hands" with a rival team principal on a deal for Magnussen to race for them. "Kevin is an extraordinary young man who deserves to be in F1," he told the official F1 website. "I hoped and tried to find him a cockpit - I even did a deal and shook hands with a team principal up and down this paddock - an absolute deal - but he stepped back…" Whitmarsh refused to name the team principal, but it's...
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