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McLaren: We don’t want to compare Norris to Hamilton
British teenager Lando Norris will follow in the footsteps of Lewis Hamilton when he makes his Formula One race debut for McLaren next season, but the team are wary of too many comparisons. Principal Zak Brown is excited by the 18-year-old’s potential but he also knows under-performing McLaren are a very different team to the one Hamilton joined in 2007 at the age of 22. It is also fair to say that McLaren’s track record with young prospects in the years since Hamilton left for Mercedes has been — like the team’s recent race performances — unimpressive. “I think he is a future world champion,” Brown said at the factory on Tuesday, a day after the announcement that Norris...
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