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THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY! McLaren Might Finally Announce Their Drivers
THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY! McLaren Might Finally Announce Their Drivers-March 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:47

Could for McLaren's 2015 Formula One driver lineup finally be over? suggests that an invitation-only media event scheduled for tomorrow may, in fact, end all the speculation regardingthe Alonso/Button/Magnussen love triangle and finally narrow it down to 2 drivers.

Select members of the press are being invited to an event at McLaren's heaquarters on Thursday.

Fernando Alonso seems to be locked in, but all best are off as to who his teammate will be. Ron Dennis seems to favor the younger Kevin Magnussen, but others feel as if the more experienced Jenson Button would be the better choice to lead a new year with a brand new Honda power unit.

Many are also annoyed at the implications for Button's career. If Button ends up without a drive next year, many feel as this prolonged decision doesn't allow for a proper retirement send-off for a fifteen-year veteran of the sport. Could McLaren find a way to smooth that PR blunder over, particularly among its British fanbase?

"What is happening at McLaren is unworthy of such a team," said two-time F1 champion and ex-McLaren driver Mika Hakkinen to Blick, as quoted by .

Speculation is now coming out that it may be Alonso's sponsors who are the hold-up. Movistar and another, speculated to be from the United Arab Emirates, are also expected to be announced at tomorrow's press event.

Others are still doubting that Alonso is as solid with McLaren as originally thought. of a unilateral exit clause built into Alonso's contract are swirling around world of F1. The inclusion of such a clause points to the notion that Alonso isn't as confident in the McLaren's ability to perform as sources initially indicated.

Or perhaps European Formula One sources are taking whatever rumors they can from whoever they can again because it's fun and provocative. (Remember the docs who said Bianchi was going to recover in Switzerland?) The exit clause rumor comes to us via La Gazetto della Sport. Auto Motor und Sport takes it one further and claims that Alonso could be so disappointed in the that he plans to sit 2015 out again rather than get stuck in another meh car. You never really know with these types of things, particularly in the cases where sources aren't named.

Poor McLaren spent more of its time in the garage and on a flatbed yesterday as opposed to actually

We'll know tomorrow, regardless. Well, we hope. Most teams announced this kind of thing by the end of last month, guys. You're late.

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