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myoozikk

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It's interested autosport have taken the story down.

It was about Mclaren expecting legal challengers from the other teams as soon as the car is launched.

Sky sports followed the story & still have it live

The McLarens in action last year

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McLaren are braced for a fight over the legality of the new MP4-27 when their 2012 car is unveiled on Wednesday.

The Woking squad have targeted a fast start with their latest challenger in a bid to take on World Champions Red Bull from the first race in 2012 having been forced to play catch-up in recent seasons.

Speaking a day ahead of the launch of the MP4-27 on the team's official website, McLaren's Geoff McGrath, the managing director of the outfit's Applied Technologies arm, said the innovative element of the new design would be clear to see from the outset - and is expected to prompt protests from rivals.

"There are technical innovations on the car which will be immediately obvious when you see them," McGrath told Autosport.

He added that the team are "getting ready for a fight" over the MP4-27, with Autosport suggesting that McLaren's new car is designed to improve their qualifying performance in 2012 so that they can control races from the front.

McLaren had initially taken an innovative approach with the exhaust system on last year's MP4-26 but were forced to revert to a more conventional layout from the first race after their pre-season testing programme was beset by unreliability.

Team principal Martin Whitmarsh stressed, however, towards the end of last year that their design team had been encouraged to take a more aggressive approach for 2012, and McGrath says that McLaren are determined to take the fight to RBR from the off.

"We've started way behind in the last couple of years - that's the really disappointing thing," he added.

"But when we're behind, you can see that historically we always catch up faster than anyone else."

McLaren will unveil the eagerly-anticipated MP4-27 from 11am - with the launch covered live on Sky Sports.com/F1.

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/news/12479/7467619/McLaren-ready-for-legal-fight

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Dudley

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Autosport is reporting that soft hands sutil has been given 18 month suspended sentence for GBH.

And he's been fired from F1 too, not a good start to the year.

He's probably fucked for getting an F1 job too, because he'll have real trouble getting into the US at least.

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kiroquai

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I made myself particularly unpopular at Silverstone in 2007 when, whilst sat at Luffield B for the race, I found myself in the middle of a cheer/boo war between Spanish Alonso followers and the other half of the grandstand, who were Lewis fans.

I didn't particularly care which one of them beat the other and didn't join in; I was sat there with my Honda F1 coat telling the people next to me it was all about Jenson. I was right too....

... just approximately 30 months too early.

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Dudley

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The car park at work has a better surface than Sebring appears to have.

And that's the newer part of the course.

To be fair, it's basically deliberate. It's why they use the 12 hours as a warmup for the LeMans 24, the car wear isn't far off equal.

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kiroquai

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Talking of Lewis...

Formula One driver Adrian Sutil has called fellow racer Lewis Hamilton a "coward" and said he no longer regarded him as a friend for failing to appear as a witness in his trial on an assault charge.

Sutil was on Tuesday given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for three years by a court in Munich after being convicted of causing bodily harm in a nightclub dispute.

Sutil and Hamilton, who have been friends on the Formula One circuit for years, were together at the Shanghai club following the Chinese Grand Prix last April when a row broke out in which Eric Lux, co-owner of the former Renault-Lotus team, was injured.

But former world champion Hamilton did not give evidence in the trial on Monday and Tuesday. Instead, the Briton provided a written statement to say he did not see the incident.

"Lewis is a coward, I don't want to be friends with someone like that," Sutil was quoted as saying by Germany's Bild daily on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old German said Hamilton was "not a man," adding that "even his father sent me an SMS wishing me luck" for the court case but "from Lewis there was nothing."

Sutil was also fined 200 000 euros ($263 000) for the attack in which Lux suffered a gash to the neck which needed stitches.

Sutil's Formula One future remains open after losing his place at Force India. He is without a team for 2012 and his manager, Manfred Zimmermann, was quoted by Bild as saying a drive this year was now "almost ruled out."

(From Supersport.com)

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Cheeko

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Talking of Lewis...

(From Supersport.com)

I'd take from that that Lewis did see what happened and thought he was guilty, but did him a favour of not getting involved in the case and adding to his problems by giving evidence against him.

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