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Half the world away

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Kevin Magnussen will leave McLaren after failing to secure an F1 race seat with the team for 2016. Magnussen's F1 hopes now lie with Renault, with the Dane hoping the French manufacturer completes a takeover of Lotus to open the door to a seat a little further. However, a back-up option could see him head to the United States to race in IndyCar, with a deal to drive for Andretti in 2015 having fallen through when he was called up to replace the injured Fernando Alonso in Australia...

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.