Martin Whitmarsh has admitted that McLaren was 'too ambitious' last year with the design of its MP4-28 and is now paying the price with its struggles early on in the 2013 campaign.The Woking-based team went for a radical design of the new car despite the pace of the MP4-27 used last year by Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, but has struggled to run at the front so far – with the team going into Monaco this weekend down in sixth in the standings.Speaking in an interview with the official F1 website, Whitmarsh admitted that the team should have simply evolved the car it had but insisted that McLaren was doing all it could to return to form.“Hero-to-zero happens very quickly in this...
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