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McLaren trying to stay calm - Dennis

It has been a hectic season for the McLaren team and its team boss Ron Dennis. The team decided to give rookie driver Lewis Hamilton a chance alongside double world champion Fernando Alonso. Seven months, a few cases in court and a 100 million dollar fine later the team is standing first and second. Ron Dennis urges his team to stay calm to make sure the team will clinch the title after seven years.

McLaren has the best chances so far to win the Formula 1 championship on Sunday. Lewis Hamilton is leading the championship with 107 points, with team-mate Fernando Alonso close behind (104 points). The last time McLaren clinched the drivers' championship title was back in 1999 when Mike Hakkinen won the title for Ron Dennis. The championship was decided in the final race in Japan and was also a fight between McLaren (Hakkinen) and Ferrari (Irvine).

Ron Dennis will try to keep his team calm this weekend because if the team continues this season's performance until the final race there should be no reason why they wouldn't win the title.

Speaking about the team's approach this weekend Ron Dennis said at Interlagos: "We're trying very hard to demonstrate equality and both drivers have different points positions. One has a slight advantage over the other and obviously Kimi is also capable of winning the World Championship, so we're just trying to stay calm, do a thorough, disciplined job and under stressful conditions, and it's as simple as that: try to keep calm." 

"We're focusing on every day singularly," he added. "We've got to demonstrate to ourselves and to everybody that's going to be putting us in the spotlight along with Kimi that we've done a competent job and given every opportunity to win. We're not really getting into the details at this stage."

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