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. stivsf1: Brits are useless at cars are they? They­ gave the world Rolls Royce. Aston Martin's are­ British. The most successful engine in F1 is the­ British built Cosworth engine (including Cosworth­ powered 1,2,3 in 1968 Constructors' Championsip). ­ More F1 teams are based in the UK than any other­ country. Britain has provided more World Champions­ than any other country (9 in total, Brazil and Finland­ are next with 3 each). British drivers has won more­ World Championships than any other country (13 now,­ Brazil second with 8, Germany 7). Britain has won more­ construtor's titles than any other country (32 so­ far, Italy 16, France 3). Then of course there is­ Lola, the most successful chassis maker outside of F1­ (and a recogniseable force in F1 with the exception of­ 1997 when Mastercard forced the team to debut 12 months­ early). And finally the fastest Diesel car on earth is­ British (a JCB), as is the fastest car on earth (the­ Thrust SSC). I'll stop there and let you soak that­ up stivsf1, then you can go back to being uneducated.

    From ginger_gitt, on Wed 3 Dec 7:17PM

  2. @ [94] There is just 2 chassis left and according to­ SIR JYS a lucky bunny

    From stivsf1, on Wed 3 Dec 6:16PM

  3. stivsf1 if you can't answer that question please­ tell me what pleasure you get from posting insulting­ comments about brits on a brit site? Perhaps it tells­ us more about you than it does about us.

    From BigBill, on Wed 3 Dec 5:52PM

  4. If your not sure do a web search for:
    mercedes high­ perf

    From BigBill, on Wed 3 Dec 5:34PM

  5. stivsf1 please tell me where the Mercedes engine is­ made that powers the Maclaren.

    From BigBill, on Wed 3 Dec 5:33PM

  6. @ [85] If MCLAREN WHANTS TO STAND AS A BRITISH CAR, ­ when you say car it means the thing from front bumper­ to rear bumper, there is no such BRITISH car any more

    From stivsf1, on Wed 3 Dec 5:20PM

  7. Hello Honky Tonks.
    Tell me pets whats a touronroute? He­ seems to know so much about cars you know.
    Now Touron,­ is it alright to call you Touron - thankyou pet.
    Now­ TourBabe I don't normally go for older men bit I do­ think that Ron Dennis is so fit, whooo im all a quiver.­ From what you say TourDear he is a bit of rogue­ pinching Schumachers floor, well now that mfi are gone­ we've all got to do the best we can pet.
    My Kevin­ likes that Kova...., you know drives one of those­ pretty little silver cars, but Kevin likes the red cars­ best. But the color does'nt do anything for him,­ complection to pasty pet.
    For me its only Ferny,­ Aaahhh! The gay mans choice.
    Hi-De-Hi my little men and­ a special one for ToronDeary XXXXX

    From , on Wed 3 Dec 4:20PM

  8. Touron, you're right! Drum it in.

    .

    W H E R E ­ . I S . M Y . I N V E S T I G A T I O N

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    I­ N T O . G L O C K ?

    From Scottish C, on Wed 3 Dec 3:38PM

  9. BILL MAC,if you dont post they say on here you­ havn't, so drum it in

    From touronroute, on Wed 3 Dec 2:50PM

  10. Toury: Now come on we had all of this nonsense­ yesterday and today you are posting it everywhere. Come­ shape up man and off to school.

    From BigBill, on Wed 3 Dec 10:31AM

  11. ginger gift, I think McLaren should abandon silver,­ which is not a British colour,
    it's the German­ one,
    and I think they should not use it, even if­ Mercedes is the owner and the engine manufacturer
    if­ McLaren want to stand as a British car
    they have to go­ back to BRG !!!

    From archibald.abercrombie, on Wed 3 Dec 7:34AM

  12. PAUL T, especially for you, just to show you how­ jealous , and far far behind, ron denis and mclaren­ are.In the Ferrari a spring device has been fitted to­ their floor since the end of last season, and this­ causes the floor to move. When the car is going faster­ the greater load causes the spring device to raise the­ floor and causes the diffuser to stall. If this is the­ case then this leads to aerodynamic benefits, reducing­ the drag and increasing downforce at high speeds.Would­ you believe a spring costing a few pence would have so­ much impact on sport costing millions.

    So far the­ device has passed the scrutineering tests because the­ movement has not been more than 5mm, but there is a­ deliberate movement at high speed.

    From touronroute, on Wed 3 Dec 7:15AM

  13. ginger_gitt : quote "Or if they are going to go­ down the red line to confuse the Stewards?" u made­ my day :)

    From petike, on Wed 3 Dec 1:27AM

  14. Incidently, anyone know if Mclaren plan on keeping a­ silver car, or are they going to go for a stupid­ looking pink, yellow an orange livery to go with the­ daft looking front and rear wings being forced upon­ them? Or if they are going to go down the red line to­ confuse the Stewards?

    From ginger_gitt, on Wed 3 Dec 1:02AM

  15. he has turned to the dark side and uses the force luke.­ hmmmm sorry chris

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 11:20PM

  16. thay hive mad mee sighn thi sam cuntract is yuo chrss.­ fererie aer thi bestis in thi worled

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 11:16PM

  17. think cliff.eddy is behind this obviously a sore LOOSER

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 11:10PM

  18. I've been pulled and I'd just like to say it­ was a very pleasant experience.

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 11:08PM

  19. whos cliff who the eddy

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 10:11PM

  20. whos cliff who the eddy

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 10:11PM
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