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Brown: Highly unlikely De Vries would end up in a McLaren

McLaren CEO Zak Brown was brutally blunt when he told reporters that Nyck de Vries had little chance of driving for McLaren in the future and thus was let go after being part of the team's junior programme since 2010. De Vries has been highly rated since his karting days and on the strength of winning the 2010 and 2011 World Karting Championship the young Dutchman looked a shoe-in for a seat with McLaren in F1. He was there three years earlier than Stoffel Vandoorne, another McLaren reject who bristled with promise until the team destroyed him. Although De Vries, now driving for ART in Formula 2, ticked all the boxes he never got the call to step up and was, in fact, looked over when the...
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