McLaren planning upgrade for final race

With just three races remaining in the 2008 F1 season, and McLaren ahead marginally in both championships, the team is still pushing development of its car and according to team boss Martin Whitmarsh will bring a significant upgrade package to its car at the season ending Brazilian Grand Prix.

"Ordinarily, the Singapore weekend would have been our last big upgrade package of the season," Whitmarsh said. "But we've now got an upgrade package focused on Brazil and will be looking to see whether we can pull any of those improvements forwards."

"There will still be little bits and pieces brought to the car for the two Asian races [Japan and China] but the package of upgrades won't be as big as the one we brought to Singapore," he added.