F1 race director Charlie Whiting has backed McLaren's claims that they weren't late to nominate their tyres for the Japanese GP despite reports to the contrary. Such was McLaren's conservative choice of tyres for Suzuka that some felt something must have gone wrong. That led to rumours that McLaren had dropped the ball with their tyre nominations and had failed to inform the FIA. That, the whispers suggested, meant they were given Pirelli's default selection. McLaren denied this, insisting they had just made the wrong call. 'I think the important thing is to say look, we didn't get it quite right to be honest and we're not always going to get everything right,' said sporting boss Gil de...
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