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McLaren: Motivation considerable, no complacency.

Team McLaren-Mercedes will be out to further extend its lead in the constructors' and drivers' world championships in France next weekend and CEO Martin Whitmarsh isn't taking anything for granted.

Indeed despite the Woking-based outfits form in North America, where the MP4-22 was clearly the class of the field, Whitmarsh is all too aware that their rivals aren't standing still and that both Ferrari and BMW Sauber remain a bit threat.

"Last week we completed one of our most intensive tests of the year so far," he explained. "Our test team worked tirelessly to prove a myriad of components alongside a massive amount of effort being put in across the organisation.

"We have a fight on our hands to maintain, and ideally extend, the lead we have in the Constructors' World Championship and the Drivers' table with both Fernando [Alonso] and Lewis [Hamilton].