Jenson Button will need to hold up until in any event September to see if McLaren need to hold him close by Fernando Alonso in 2017.
Director Ron Dennis says he won’t consider whether to pick Button or hold driver Stoffel Vandoorne until the Italian Grand Prix.
“We’re not notwithstanding discussing it until Monza,” Dennis told BBC Sport. “Why would it be a good idea for us to choose now?”
Catch, the 2009 best on the planet, is out of agreement toward the end of the season.
Dennis said there was no preferred standpoint in choosing now in light of the fact that, among different reasons, “you simply disappoint a driver”.
The team are trusted liable to pick Belgian Vandoorne, who out-qualified the Briton and scored a point on his stupendous prix debut in Bahrain this year, where he was remaining in for the harmed Alonso.
Yet, the choice could yet go for Button, who has solid advertising claim, immense experience and demonstrated capacity.
Alonso and Button are fourteenth and fifteenth separately in the drivers’ title standings.
On the off chance that McLaren chose Button, they would likely attempt to hold a legally binding association with Vandoorne and maybe cultivate him out to another team to pick up experience and for judging the potential. Dennis said, “Any team that imagines they may be able to poach him is very much mistaken. You may rest assured Stoffel is not for sale.”
Vandoorne, who is viewed as the most blazing prospect not yet in a full Formula 1 seat, is important to Renault, whose team foremost Frederic Vasseur rates the 24-year-old to a great degree profoundly having run him in the GP2 feeder arrangement, of which he is the dominant champion.
Be that as it may, Vandoorne can’t sign for another team until a choice date in his McLaren contract lapses in the harvest time.
Catch is additionally important to Williams, who are prone to drop Brazilian Felipe Massa for next season.
Catch’s administrator Richard Goddard said the 36-year-old had not yet chose what he needed to do next season.
Williams have an alternative on Finn Valtteri Bottas and are prone to hold him, however have settled on no definite conclusion on their driver line-up.
Alonso is under contract to McLaren until the end of 2017 and has said he won’t settle on a choice on his future past that until he has encountered the new cars and Pirelli tires that are being presented next season.
