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Whitmarsh admits to making mistakes
05 April 2009McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh had admitted to making his own mistakes towards to controversial situation involving Lewis Hamilton and Dave Ryan; Whitmarsh suspended 35-year McLaren veteran Ryan at the beginning of the weekend after the team manager was reported to have given 'misleading information' to the Australian Grand Prix stewards.
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"One of the criticisms against me is that I was on holiday and didn't arrive here in time," Whitmarsh explained. "I have got deep regrets about that, but clearly as I left Australia on Sunday evening I wasn't aware of an issue; an issue was started to be reported on Wednesday, which I was told about, but frankly I did not believe the scale nor the speed of it.
"I didn't know that the Australian stewards would be here and I hadn't imagined - and again, maybe this is a big misjudgement on my part - but I hadn't imagined that there was going to be a stewards hearing here. I knew that there was an issue developing on Wednesday and that I had to speak to the people directly, which I did. Through to Friday morning, Dave still held the view that he had not lied to the stewards, and I need to go through that process.
"On Thursday night I left here with the feeling that this was a very severe and significant, and embarrassing event for this team - this is something which we have apologised for, I have apologised for and I apologise again to the media, to the FIA, to the World Motor Sport Council and to the FIA president for what has happened."
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