Frederic Vasseur, one of Renault's new team bosses first public acts was to announce that he actually wanted new GP2 champion, Stoffel Vandoorne, to race this year in the team but admitted that instead they had to settle for Kevin Magnussen. Frenchman Vasseur, who worked with Vandoorne at his GP2 team ART last year, said, 'Vandoorne has a contract there (at McLaren) and they did not want to let him go.' Some commentators have mused that Vasseur's comments were an odd way to welcome Magnussen to Renault, but one pundit says the Dane should just brush it off. 'It's a test of Kevin's psyche,' Jason Watt, a Dane and former F3000 driver, told Ekstra Bladet newspaper, who urged Kevin...
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