Formula one: ‘We had to take risks with new car’

We will have an interesting season and I hope we are certainly going to be competitive, says Whitmarsh.

McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh firmly believes the risks his team has taken with its new car will pay dividends over the course of the season this year, according to ESPNF1. “Clearly we have taken some risks in changing the car from last year,” he said. “We finished last season with undoubtedly the quickest car and it would have been easy to continue to develop that car and make it quicker still for the start of this year, yet we’ve made a lot of changes to the overall package in the belief that you have to be competitive over 19 races and develop it. So we have given ourselves a platform that is new to ensure we have got the development opportunities over the course of the season. But we’ll see, I think we will have an interesting season and I hope we are certainly going to be competitive.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 12^th, 2013.