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Pressure mounting on Whitmarsh as McLaren woes mount
20 March, 2013 Martin Whitmarsh on the pitwall in Melbourne
The buck will stop at the desk of Martin Whitmarsh if McLaren cannot quickly emerge from its early 2013 season slump, according to former team driver David Coulthard.
Having lost team stars Lewis Hamilton and Paddy Lowe ahead of the new season, the Woking based team struggled markedly in Australia with the radical new MP4-28.
Whitmarsh, team principal, might ultimately shoulder the blame, Coulthard – who drove for McLaren from 1996 until 2004 – wrote in a column for the Telegraph.
'You cannot escape the fact that there is pressure upon Martin Whitmarsh as team principal, for in the end, the captain of the ship is...
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