McLaren to unveil car next month

Eurosport - Wed, 03 Dec 09:29:00 2008

The car Lewis Hamilton will use to defend his Formula One title next year will be unveiled by McLaren on January 16 at their Woking factory.

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McLaren are the third team to announce a launch date.

Toyota will be revealing their new car on January 15 while BMW-Sauber take the wraps off theirs in Valencia on January 20.

While McLaren and Mercedes engineers busily prepare for the 2009 season in Woking, Brixworth and Stuttgart and the test team readies two cars for December outings at Jerez and the new Autodromo Internacional do Algarve circuit in Portugal, Hamilton and team-mates Heikki Kovalainen, Pedro de la Rosa and Gary Paffett will head to western Finland for a five-day pre-season training camp at the Kuortane Sports Institute.

The centre has helped train some of the world's top athletes and Hamilton acknowledges that, not only does it provide the McLaren team with a useful distraction from the usual pressures of F1, but it also acts as a useful team-building exercise with mechanics and engineers joining the drivers for group exercises and tests on the Kuortane campus.

"Travelling to Finland for our winter training camp is one of the best weeks of the year for me," the Briton admitted.

"It feels like you're miles from anywhere and totally cut off from the outside world. It allows me to focus solely on my training, which is great.

"It's certainly not an easy week. Finland in the winter is cold and icy and we're pushed hard for day after day. We spend the first part of the week doing tests to monitor our core strength and flexibility and spend the rest of the time building on specific exercises that will help us once we're back in the car.

"After Brazil, it's good to get a proper rest because it's the one time of the year when you can relax your training a little - but Finland is when it all starts again in earnest."

F1-Live.com / Reuters

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  1. PERVERT

    From U R SOLES, on Fri 5 Dec 6:42PM

  2. Oooh those invalid comments Honky Tonks.
    Dont get­ impatient Shaun, on me way pet. Oooh nearly forgot the­ hand cream, im all a-quiver.
    Hi-De-Hi

    From , on Thu 4 Dec 11:26AM

  3. I might get an ogen too. Oooh I told Kev you werent­ straight, see you soon Honky Tonk.
    Hi-De-Hi my little­ men just off to see the luvly Shaun.

    From , on Thu 4 Dec 11:25AM

  4. Listen I will just pop round to Tescos for the­ pineapple.

    From , on Thu 4 Dec 11:23AM

  5. Oooh Shaun Honky Tonk you are so dominant.

    From , on Thu 4 Dec 11:22AM

  6. CLARANCE I would also force feed you senna pods to­ teach you what your ar$e is for

    From U R SOLES, on Thu 4 Dec 8:56AM

  7. CLARENCE would I trest you rough? if you mean would I­ treat you rough then the answer is yes I would shove­ the rough end of a pineapple up your ar$e

    From U R SOLES, on Thu 4 Dec 8:55AM

  8. tt im bored now good night

    From MGA, on Thu 4 Dec 12:00AM

  9. i guess, as long as a full set of good teeth is not­ your top priority... and who can forget about the­ almost endless list of british supermodels....lets­ see...kate, naomi and.....

    From tt, on Wed 3 Dec 11:47PM

  10. any girl will do? I guess the brits are more desperate­ than I thought....at least ole benny tried to keep em­ nubile....

    From tt, on Wed 3 Dec 11:04PM

  11. and as far as my air travel is concerned, I am fairly­ positive that GE does the majority of work for me....

    From tt, on Wed 3 Dec 10:57PM

  12. and since he is not going to talk to me anymore.... i­ might as well say it - implying simplicity on my end­ based on my right/wrong/left thing shows a certain lack­ of humor, albeit not british humor - that would have to­ involve "tearing clothes off nubile girls"

    From tt, on Wed 3 Dec 10:26PM

  13. i guess i will make sure to re-read everything after­ taking half the stuff out while trying to get rid of­ the stupid 'invalid message' thing. Jaguar was­ in there because i took a shot at Ford and the car i­ was talking about was the Range Rover.

    oh well,­ having ginger ignore me might not be the end of the­ world after all....

    From tt, on Wed 3 Dec 9:42PM

  14. tt: I'm going to ignore you after this as you have­ just proven your limited knowledge, and this is how -­ at no point since the birth of the Jaguar car company­ (going all the way back to 1922 when it was founded as­ the Swallow Sidecar Company) has BMW done anything that­ can even be remotely considered to be of benefit to­ Jaguar. The reason for this? BMW have never owned­ Jaguar. Have never been in any kind of technological­ agreement with Jaguar. And I repeat especially for you­ - HAVE NEVER OWNED JAGUAR.

    And apart from that,­ you're whole right/wrong/left thing, shows just how­ simple you are.

    From ginger_gitt, on Wed 3 Dec 9:07PM

  15. you said it yourself: the rest of the world drives on­ the right side.... so yours is wrong, not left....

    are­ you seriously trying to tell me that VW and BMW did not­ have a major influence on reviving the left for dead­ british cars with their designs and technology? This is­ more than the source of funding, and yes I threw tata­ in there to be correct, but seriously, the jaguars­ became a usable care because of BMW.

    From tt, on Wed 3 Dec 8:56PM

  16. tt: Before you say we drive on the wrong side, have you­ any idea why we drive on the left (as do Japan) while­ the rest of the world drives on the right? I'll­ give you a clue - your left arm was your shield arm,­ made it easier for the wimps to defend themselves.

    And­ I wasn't talking about who owned the companies, I­ was talking about who builds them. Who gives a @#$% if­ the money funding it comes from Germany, America or­ India - the fact is Rolls Royce will always be British­ (incidently, next time you take a flight anywhere, be­ thankful for the British engine that's allowing you­ to get there)

    From ginger_gitt, on Wed 3 Dec 8:39PM

  17. yes, very inspired, ginger and it so adequately sums it­ up- yes, brits you used to be good at a lot of­ things-and that is about all they have left-reminisce­ about the glory days-it does not matter how many teams­ are still based in the UK-they are about as british as­ the force india car is indian-and i can totally see how­ the thrust and jcb [insert word of choice for the male­ reproductive organ] measuring contests have translated­ into a thriving british passenger car industry, with­ their cars being the envy of the rest of the world, the­ BMW, err sorry the Rolls Royce, the VW, err Bentley,­ the TATA, I mean Jaguar-but hey at least the mini­ cooper is cool-oh-yeah, right, i forgot

    come on, you­ are driving on the wrong side of the road for crying­ out loud.....

    From tt, on Wed 3 Dec 8:27PM

  18. arn't mercedes engines made at Illmor which is an­ english race engine firm

    From themoores2742, on Wed 3 Dec 7:59PM

  19. The Voice: Every country has its bad makes and jokes. ­ Britain had the Reliant Robin, Italy has built many­ Fiat 'rollerskates' and helped Russia give us­ all the joy of the Lada, while Spain gave us the great­ SEAT joke, and who can forget the handwarmer in the­ rear window of a Skoda. Every car building nation has­ its pitiful side, but as far as I can figure out there­ is only one that has an automotive history as­ prestigious as Britain, and to be fair to them they did­ give us the car in the first place, and that is­ Germany.

    From ginger_gitt, on Wed 3 Dec 7:59PM

  20. A Reliant was a car completely made in Britain. There­ are lots of the three wheelers left still on the road­ to make us proud.

    From , on Wed 3 Dec 7:47PM
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