A day after Ferrari announced the F10, Mclaren have launched MP4-25, their Formula 1 challenger for the season 2010.
Mclaren finished a 3rd last year behind Red Bull racing and the first placed Brawn GP F1 team. For this year, the Mclaren F1 team has concentrated their efforts on improving the aerodynamics which are said to be throughly overhauled. The power still comes from the Mercedes Benz supplied FO 108X V8 which has become a benchmark of sorts, winning the last two driver’s world championships.
When Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton take to the driver seat of the new MP4-25 this season it would be the first time since 1989, when Alain Prost and Aryton Senna ran together, that any team has fielded a joint world championship drive line up. The team begins its pre-season testing in Spain on Monday.
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Gallery Images: McLaren MP4-25
Press Release
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team today revealed its brand new MP4-25 chassis – the car in which reigning world champion Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton will contest the 2010 FIA Formula 1 World Championship.
Unveiled at Vodafone UK’s stunning headquarters in Newbury, the 2010 car looks noticeably different from last year’s race-winning MP4-24. MP4-25 features a radical aerodynamic overhaul and a significantly larger fuel tank to take full advantage of this year’s new regulations, and its design team is confident it has explored every possible avenue to maximise the car’s performance.
Horsepower once again comes from our friends in Stuttgart. Mercedes-Benz’s FO 108X V8 subtly improves upon an engine which has become the benchmark in Formula 1, winning the last two drivers’ world championships.
The team kicks off its 2010 campaign with a stunning driver pairing: 2009 world champion Jenson Button and 2008 title winner Lewis Hamilton. It is the first time since 1989 – when it ran Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna – that the team has fielded a joint-world champion driver line-up, and marks the first time in Formula 1 history that the sport’s two most recent world champions have been partnered together.
However, the driver line-up represents only a fraction of the team’s remarkable strength in depth. Members of the design team who contributed to the development of MP4-25 can also trace their involvement back through an incredible seven drivers’ world championships, five of the team’s eight constructors’ world championships and 112 of the team’s 164 grand prix victories.
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team begins pre-season testing with MP4-25 at the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo on Monday.
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