McLaren Mercedes F1 Team Official

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The McLaren Formula One team is rich in heritage, having been formed in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren. Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Limited as it was then known set to work on building a Formula One car, and three years later the team made its debut at the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix.

The team scored their first race win in 1968, when Bruce McLaren piloted a McLaren-Ford to victory. Tragically though the New Zealander lost his life at a Can Am testing accident at the Goodwood Circuit in 1970, but the team continued his legacy, winning races in Formula One and expanding into Indy and Can-Am Racing.

In 1974 the team celebrated its first Formula One Drivers" and Constructors" Championship win, with Emerson Fittipaldi in the McLaren-Ford M23. The next Drivers" Championship came courtesy of English driver James Hunt, behind the wheel of the McLaren-Ford M23 in 1976.

To date the team has achieved the highest number of double race wins of any pair of Formula 1 drivers with team-mates Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost notching up 14 wins between them in the 1988 / 89 season. The Senna / Prost partnership also holds the accolade for the most grands prix wins in a season. In 1988 the pair won 15 out of the 16 races on the calendar.

The team has won four consecutive Drivers" and Constructors" Championships (1988-1992) and secured eight Constructors" World Championship titles, the first of which was in 1974. Today the team now has a record 11 Drivers" World Championship titles and eight Constructor’s World Championships.

FORMULA 1 STATISTICS
Number of races - 631
Grand Prix victories - 156
Formula One Drivers" World Championships - 11
Formula One Constructors" World Championships - 8
Pole Positions - 134
Podiums - 417
Double Wins (1-2s) - 44
Fastest Laps - 135
(correct after 2007 Brazil Grand Prix)

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  • Hamilton commits to McLaren until 2012

    McLaren have announced a five-year extension to their contract with star driver Lewis Hamilton. The new agreement, which starts for 2008, will run up to and including the 2012 season.

    The announcement takes the length of McLaren’s relationship with Hamilton to a total of 15 years, believed to be among the longest running associations between a sportsman and a team in motorsport history.

    "It’s fantastic for me that Vodafone McLaren Mercedes has extended my contract until 2012,” said Hamilton, runner-up in the 2007 drivers’ championship. “Whilst last year was my first year with the team in Formula One, I have been connected to McLaren and Mercedes-Benz since 1998 and feel that I could easily drive for this team for the whole of my Formula One career.”

    “I am with the right team to compete for race wins and both the drivers’ and constructors’ world championships in the future,” he added. “We will have a lot of challenges ahead, but I am 100 percent positive I am with the people to take them on.”

    “I am enjoying working closely with Heikki, Pedro (de la Rosa), Gary (Paffett) and the team as we push hard with the development of the MP4-23,” said Hamilton. “We have 57 days to go until the lights go out on the grid at Albert Park and we are motivated to make the most of this time and arrive in Melbourne with a competitive car."

    McLaren’s Formula One CEO Martin Whitmarsh added: “Since Heikki joined the team in December, it has become more apparent how well he and Lewis will work together to become a competitive force for the team. We feel confident we have the prospect of another exciting season ahead."

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  • 2008 Drivers and car numbers

    Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
    1. Kimi Raikkonen
    2. Felipe Massa

    BMW Sauber F1 Team
    3. Nick Heidfeld
    4. Robert Kubica

    ING Renault F1 Team
    5. Fernando Alonso
    6. Nelson Piquet Jr.

    AT&T Williams F1
    7. Nico Rosberg
    8. Kazuki Nakajima

    Red Bull Racing
    9. David Coulthard
    10. Mark Webber

    Panasonic Toyota Racing
    11. Jarno Trulli
    12. Timo Glock

    Scuderia Toro Rosso
    14. Sebastien Bourdais
    15. Sebastian Vettel

    Honda Racing F1 Team
    16. Jenson Button
    17. Rubens Barrichello

    Super Aguri F1
    18. Takuma Sato
    19. Anthony Davidson

    Force India Formula 1 Team
    20. Giancarlo Fisichella
    21. Adrian Sutil


    Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes
    22. Lewis Hamilton
    23. Heikki Kovalainen

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  • Mclaren Mercedes Team 2008

    2008 season:

    Team Name: Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes F1 Team

    Drivers: Lewis Hamilton
    Heikki Kovalainen


    Test Drivers: Pedro De La Rosa
    Gary Paffet

    Car: Mclaren Mercedes MP4-23

    what are your views on the team for 07? driver line up? Sponsers? how well u think thell do? all views are welcome

    for anything official go to www.mclaren.com

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