Martin Whitmarsh has vowed that McLaren will continue to play their part in an exciting Formula 1 season. 

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel is all set to win the 2011 Formula 1 title at the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend, but the McLaren boss is determined for his team to fight all the way.

He said: “Taking the long journey to Suzuka always reinforces the notion that we’re headed into the closing stages of the season.”

“While there remains a mathematical, albeit slim, chance of Jenson securing the world championship, we realistically go into these last races with an undimmed resolution to win, and to ensure the world championship remains interesting, exciting and unpredictable for as long as possible!”

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“To that end, we’re still pushing ahead with the development of key areas of the MP4-26 – in particular, we’re focusing on areas where there will be significant carry-over of performance and learning into 2012.”

“With the 26, the key areas of overlap development are the front and rear wings: any downforce we find this year can be carried over to the MP4-27.”

“Encouragingly, we were able to successfully track-test our latest iteration of rear wing in Singapore, it proving sufficiently positive during Friday practice that it was deployed on both cars for the remainder of the race weekend.”

“While there will be an inevitable shift of focus and deployment towards the new car, we still have enough momentum within the development system to ensure that we’ll still be introducing new parts through until the last few races of the season.”

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