McLaren have no ‘Plan B’ in place should Lewis Hamilton decide to leave the team at the end of the season and will speed up contract negotiations in the next few days to try to make sure he stays.
Team Principal Martin Whitmarsh, though, dismissed speculation that the 2008 champion was close to agreeing a deal with Mercedes.
“I haven’t given Plan B any thought,” said Whitmarsh. “We want Lewis to stay and we want him to stay if he wants to stay.”
Mclaren are 29 points adrift of Red Bull in the constructors’ standings with seven races remaining and Hamilton second in the drivers’ title race with 37 points between him and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Alonso’s car suffered ‘big damage’
Meanwhile, Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali said that Alonso’s car suffered ‘big damage’ after he was run off the track while trying to pass Sebastian Vettel, according to Autosport.com
“We had a problem with the car and if you see, it has big damage on the left rear and also there was something broken from a mechanical point of view,” said Domenicali who added that the drive-through penalty given to Vettel was fair and should not b compared to a similar incident that happened with Alonso in Bahrain last year.
“I heard people ask why last year [Alonso] was not penalised [after a similar incident]. The FIA rules have changed and that was a different situation.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 11th, 2012.
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