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Sergio Perez Rates himself 6/10 on his performance so far this year's season.
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McLaren today celebrates its 50 years of existence as today marks the day that New Zealander Bruce McLaren inaugurated Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd on September 2, 1963.
Yeah, Jenson said they had an aero efficiency problem they wanted to sort out before Monza.Kiril Varbanov wrote:Mclaren are going to conduct an aero test at Vairano this week - confirmed to Jennie Gow.
Source:McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh says Kimi Räikkönen "is determined" to leave Lotus for the 2014 Formula 1 campaign, and has revealed that he last season made attempts to bring the former World Champion back to the Woking-based outfit.
Although talks have not been held so far this year, with Whitmarsh stating his ambition to keep Jenson Button and Sergio Pérez onboard for at least another term, he admits he has been interested in re-signing the Finn, whom he ultimately expects to stay put.
Räikkönen previously raced for McLaren from 2002 to 2006, where he secured his first nine F1 victories and finished runner-up in the 2003 and 2005 campaigns.
"Yes, we have," Whitmarsh told the official Formula 1 website when asked if he has thought about securing the Finn. "Kimi has always been great and I am a big fan of him. There is a lot of speculation out there at the moment, so let’s see what happens.
"Obviously Kimi is determined to go somewhere else and I sense that he will not succeed in that goal, so let’s see how he gets on there."
He added: "I probably shouldn’t be, but I’m completely open - last year we had talks with him, but for various reasons it didn’t happen. This year we’ve had no talks - yet."
Whitmarsh went on to explain that it "could be" possible for discussions over a future seat to be held, but claimed Button and Pérez both "deserve another go" in 2014.
Martin tries to make this all sound noble, but it's really just plain old mismanagement - a failure to allocate resources properly for the long term.“The weakness of McLaren - and this is probably my fault - is that we have not switched [enough] resources to the next year,” he revealed, “We fought and battled on for this season, as we are racers - that is our weakness. In the past, often we've been a bit late - we've come out slow and then put a foot on the gas. Often we've been in a situation where we've made a mistake, then we rectified that mistake and jumped forward. But, this year, the problem that we have with this car is that we are behind in development. You then push hard to accelerate development, you lose correlation from the wind tunnel to the track, you lose your way and it becomes difficult to make the progress that you want.”
Contracts in F1 are never set in stone. Best example of this is kimi when he was at Ferrari.Holm86 wrote:I'm pretty sure that if Raikkonen comes to McLaren it would be instead of Button. If I remember correctly Perez deal was a multi-year deal. And Buttons contract ends by the end of this season.
And I also do believe that Perez has something to do with the new sponsor which is reveled in December.
