McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh is sure that this season's F1 World Championship title race is set to be one of the best ever.

Lewis Hamilton crashed out of last weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Monza to relinquish his position at the top of the standings, as Red Bull racer Mark Webber stepped into the breach.

But with Hamilton, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel all in the mix at the business end of proceedings, Whitmarsh is confident it will go down to the wire.

He said: "It will be a race to Abu Dhabi now and that is great. This is an epic World Championship – and I hope everyone realises that this is potentially one of the best World Championships ever in the history of F1.

"You have got Jenson and Lewis, you have the two Red Bull drivers, and you have Alonso, absolutely all in this championship – and that is fantastic really.

"Ferrari and Red Bull are very strong, I think we are not too bad. I would not want to call this one.

"We are going to aim to win. You hear these pundits say we are weak here and strong there, and I don't know how they can work it out – they obviously know more about our car than I do."

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