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Vandoorne: I have to be on the F1 grid next year

Belgian driver Stoffel Vandoorne says he has to be racing in Formula One next season and has options if McLaren do not hand him Jenson Button's seat. Vandoorne has already competed in one grand prix for McLaren, replacing Fernando Alonso in Bahrain in April and scoring the team's first point of the year after the Spaniard's big crash in Australia. He is strongly tipped to take over from 2009 world champion Button, the sport's most experienced driver with nearly 300 grands prix to his credit, who is out of contract at the end of 2016. 'I've been pushing for this for a long time and hopefully things work out for next year,' Vandoorne told Sky Sports television during testing at Silverstone...
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