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McLaren team extremely well prepared for final round

McLaren Formula 1 team boss Ron Dennis has said his team couldn't have done anything better as the team prepared themselves for the title showdown at Interlagos. The team will do its best to win the drivers' championship with Lewis Hamilton.

"We used all the time to run every single possible scenario that we could think of," Dennis was quoted by autosport.com. "And also introduced all the problems that we imagined could occur and factored those in. Can we damage a nose? Can we stop? Can we change a nose and still come fifth? All those things we factored into every scenario we could think of.

"We increased the intensity of the real-time analysis so we should be able to pick up any variation or tyre pressure within two or three seconds so that if he does pick up a puncture and he's a few hundred yards from the pit-lane entrance that we can pick it up fast enough.

"Every single part on the car has been re-analysed. We looked at the history over the last year of each components reliability, anything that falls close to being of concern. I can say whatever the outcome, if our car fails - and we don't want that to happen - that no more effort could have been put in than we put in."

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