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Button to make way for Vandoorne at McLaren
Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne will replace Jenson Button in McLaren's race driver line-up next year with the 2009 Formula One world champion still available if needed and under contract for 2018, the team said on Saturday. Vandoorne is to partner Spain's double world champion Fernando Alonso. 'Forget the word ‘retirement',' team head Ron Dennis said of the 36-year-old Button, who won his title with Brawn GP, at the Italian Grand Prix. 'That is not in the vocabulary, that is not what we are saying. 'Jenson is one of the team's drivers for the next two years and if Jenson is needed to drive next year for any reason, he will drive.' Button, the most experienced performer on the starting...
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