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McLaren staff made Christmas sacrifices
McLaren Operations Director Simon Roberts said his staff had to make tremendous sacrifices during the Christmas break, to ensure that the team was ready to compete during the 2016 campaign. The decision was taken after it was established that pre-season testing would begin earlier in 2016, due to the revised 2016 Formula calendar. The pre-season testing, scheduled to take place at the Circuit de Catalunya was brought forward by a whole week as a result. McLaren have since confirmed that the new car will only be launched one day before the scheduled Barcelona testing. 'Our entire build programme wasn't lined up for that. So we knew we had a problem to solve,' said Roberts this week. 'In...
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