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Break should do McLaren good

BUDAPEST: It’s a good thing for McLaren that Formula One is in its three-week break before the next race in Turkey. The team will need that time to try to correct problems that threaten to send a stellar season spinning out of control.

It has to deal with the aftermath of the trouble it got into for possessing technical information about Ferrari’s cars.

Then there is FIA’s penalty that cost the team the 15 points in the constructors standings from the Hungarian Grand Prix for violating rules at the race.

And though its two drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, are fighting for the championship, they aren’t speaking to each other and have frosty relations with team boss Ron Dennis.

No wonder Dennis said he was weary of the quibbling — Alonso hinting he wants to leave the team and Hamilton giving different accounts of what has caused the problems.

“It has been a very difficult time for the company and for the team. It has been very difficult emotionally,” Dennis said to British television. “Both drivers have to take some responsibility for this.”

Even the completion of the Hungarian Grand Prix and the major players’ departure for holiday didn’t stop more developments.

On Wednesday, FIA, motor sports’ governing body, announced that Ferrari’s case against McLaren will be heard by its International Court of Appeal on Sept. 13. — Agencies

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