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'2017 probably my last chance at F1' - Vandoorne
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After a long time waiting in the wings for his chance to race in Formula One, Stoffel Vandoorne finally made a successful race début earlier this year in Bahrain, and next year will take over from Jenson Button as a full time driver for McLaren. But the 24-year-old Belgian driver admits that he had begun to worry that this moment would never arrive. "Time is always pressing in a driver’s career, so I knew it had to be next year - as it was probably my last chance of getting to Formula One," he told the official Formula One website this week. "I remember a year ago when I was finishing GP2 that of course there were a lot of rumours around that I might...
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