Magnussen’s race options ‘very limited’

Kevin Magnussen says his options to race full-time in 2015 “are very limited” as he weighs up what to do this season.

Following Fernando Alonso’s crash in pre-season testing, Magnussen will race for McLaren at the opening round of the new season in Melbourne. However, with the team confident Alonso will be fit for the second race at Malaysia, Magnussen has nothing else lined up beyond next weekend.

Wanting to race alongside his reserve role at McLaren, Magnussen - who previously said he wouldn’t rule out driving for Manor - says it’s tough to find a drive that would not hurt his F1 ambitions.

“I got the call quite late as well that I wasn't racing in F1 and therefore a lot of things were closed already,” Magnussen said. “The options are very limited, but I’m also not completely sure if racing something else is the right thing to do when you want to get back to Formula One.

“The best thing to do would be to drive race cars and do races and keep sharp like that but Formula One is tricky these days. There isn’t a test team anymore so it’s a tricky one.”

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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.

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