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Deal for Magnussen to go elsewhere fell through - McLaren
Sutton Images Enlarge Martin Whitmarsh has revealed he shook hands on a deal for Kevin Magnussen to drive elsewhere next year but the team in question pulled out. Magnussen will replace Sergio Perez at McLaren next year, joining as a rookie after winning the Formula Renault 3.5 title. His arrival leaves Perez without a drive next year at a late stage in the driver market, but Whitmarsh said the timing of the announcement was due to a deal with another team falling through. "I have offered him to a number of teams and we couldn't get a situation for him to be in F1, so we decided to move him to ourselves," he told Formula 1.com. "If Kevin didn't exist, probably Checo would...
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