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Dodgy Business: A team feeling the heat

As F1's media arrived in Bahrain they found themselves welcomed in to a new and more friendly McLaren brand centre, Tony Dodgins tells the story and looks at the reasons why

The normal start to a Friday morning, especially a Bahrain Friday morning, the track liberally sprinkled with desert sand. Just the single installation lap and then everyone sits there, helmets on, waiting for someone else to be track cleaner.

The BlackBerry bleeped and the message was from McLaren's communications chief.

"This is not a press release," it said, "more of a personal update from me to you, to bring you up to speed on various small changes we're making that may interest those of you who regularly (or even irregularly) attend grands prix.

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