Whitmarsh uncut: how McLaren went off-course
McLaren opted for a radical approach for its 2013 car, but it was soon obvious the season would be a struggle. Jonathan Noble talked with Martin Whitmarsh about what went wrong
McLaren ended 2012 with the fastest car in the Formula 1 field and confident of a 2013 championship challenge.
But it eschewed the successful formula of its 2012 machine and instead came up with a radical design for the new season.
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Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.
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