Haug pledges support to McLaren

Mercedes-Benz Motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug has insisted that the German manufacturers are still fully supportive of McLaren’s Formula One efforts despite the fallout from Lewis Hamilton’s disqualification from the Australian Grand Prix.

Having been excluded from the constructors’ championship in 2007 due to the ’spygate’ affair, the British outfit found themselves in even more controversy last week when Hamilton and McLaren sporting director Dave Ryan failed to tell the entire truth during a stewards’ hearing after the Melbourne race.