Kevin Magnussen has ruled out keeping his foot in the F1 door next year by staying as a reserve driver.<\/p>\n
For 2016, McLaren has replaced the Dane with new GP2 champion Stoffel Vandoorne, after 23-year-old Magnussen insisted he needed to get back to racing.<\/p>\n
So Magnussen has now completed a test for the leading Le Mans team Porsche.<\/p>\n
“Next time I have meetings with various teams,” he told the Danish broadcaster TV2, “and I am talking inside and outside of formula one so we’ll see what happens.”<\/p>\n
Magnussen admitted, however, that his F1 chances are slim.<\/p>\n
“There are several possibilities in formula one if I want to be reserve driver,” he said.\u00a0 “But I do not.\u00a0 I will go and race something next year.<\/p>\n
“It’s not because I can’t be bothered being reserve driver, I simply cannot.\u00a0 I am a racing driver and I have to be racing.\u00a0 I cannot bear not to drive anymore.”<\/p>\n
But Magnussen sounds more than happy to leave F1 behind for now to enter world endurance sports car racing with Porsche.<\/p>\n
“I knew that it was a good car, but I was surprised that it was that good,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“It is clearly the coolest race car I’ve ever driven.\u00a0 Formula one is obviously the highest, with the most money and the most things coming with it.<\/p>\n
“But looking purely as a racing driver, the Porsche is better.\u00a0 The test went incredibly well, the car suits me perfectly, I was quick and I worked really well with the team,” he added.<\/p>\n
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