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. That's rite shaun c. A man after my own hart.

    From Count Louis Zborowski, on Tue 2 Dec 6:06PM

  2. Ron just spraid a 2008 Ferrari in black and silver and­ calls it his. The cheeter.

    From Count Louis Zborowski, on Tue 2 Dec 6:04PM

  3. his brain (i use the words loosely)is also on a­ different planet.

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 5:58PM

  4. who gives a $h1t when they unveil it

    From U R SOLES, on Tue 2 Dec 5:58PM

  5. paul t what you fail to understand is touronroute lives­ in a parallel universe therefor his time-existence is­ not the same as mere mortals like us.

    From MGA, on Tue 2 Dec 5:56PM

  6. Bill. Shhhh. It's called survival. Unless you­ testiculate they remove you.

    From Count Louis Zborowski, on Tue 2 Dec 5:42PM

  7. And why it was a hit

    From Kenneth O, on Tue 2 Dec 5:40PM

  8. I'll have to say tha Touronroute has achieved his­ goal of being the star of Yahoo/F1. Now I understand­ how the concept for the movie 'Forest Gump'­ came about.

    From Kenneth O, on Tue 2 Dec 5:40PM

  9. Hello boys, its me.
    Whats all this nonsense about a­ floor, my first mini never had a floor and the­ handbrake fell off.

    From Mrs Valerie Quigly, on Tue 2 Dec 5:38PM

  10. Chris T, have you stopped taking your tablets?

    From BigBill, on Tue 2 Dec 5:34PM

  11. they copy ferrari the cheeters
    it have 4 weels like the­ ferrari and a whole in the top where to put a champion

    From Count Louis Zborowski, on Tue 2 Dec 5:31PM

  12. Toury, you bad boy you had my posts pulled. Tut Tut

    From BigBill, on Tue 2 Dec 5:29PM

  13. touronroute,The FIA stripped the Mclaren car down to­ the very last nut and bolt in February to see if­ anything on it was in the least bit related to any idea­ that Ferarri have ever had so that if they found­ anything they could refuse to allow McLaren into the­ 2008 Championship. And your saying that even though­ they found loads of stuff that was from Ferarri they­ still let them run with it. I'll have some of what­ your taking then as it must be really good stuff.

    From GEORGE, on Tue 2 Dec 5:27PM

  14. comment 29 well said my man i see tour on route still­ busting his chops about mclaren eh well numbnuts lewis­ is world champion hahahahahaha

    From JEFF F, on Tue 2 Dec 5:15PM

  15. Chris T, HA HA good one mate.
    Me old mate mouronroute,­ it still suprises me just how stupid you are although­ it shouldn't I know, if you or your friends at­ force India knew anything about F1 you would know that­ the McLaren floor pan is Completly differant to the­ Ferrari's on account of the McLaren being a SWB­ & the Ferrari being a LWB, so once again your lies­ are found out.
    Wheres the Ferrari e-mail your supposed­ to be sending me & Scottish C's investigation­ you promised him.
    Your pain is our gain.

    From OnlyHereForTheBeer, on Tue 2 Dec 5:08PM

  16. Chris T,
    very good, I like it

    From paul t, on Tue 2 Dec 5:07PM

  17. touronroute,
    you haven't answered the timeline­ question? Why not?

    From paul t, on Tue 2 Dec 5:05PM

  18. Sorry about the multiple listings and again, but I had­ that invalid comment, again

    From paul t, on Tue 2 Dec 5:04PM

  19. Boys
    I got zapped all over yesterday. So they've­ let me back under sertun condishuns
    1) I have to spel­ at leest 35% of my werds rong
    2) I carnt to use any­ rekugnaizabel grammer forms
    3) I carn't to say mad­ max or bernie ecclescake
    4) I carn't to call marnio­ golum- ihave to be nise to it
    5) I carn't to kall­ the rasists werds like vile or scum
    6) I carn't to­ call stivsf1 a t0sser, i have to bow bifor his­ sooperier intalekt
    7) I have too suport the Ferrari­ teem
    8) I carn't to taik the p1ss of the nutters by­ making jokes or poking fun
    9) I car't say werds­ like nonsense or idiot
    10) I must to admit that­ Maclaren ar cheeters and I must to call them­ Mcladron.

    You are my witnusses.

    From Count Louis Zborowski, on Tue 2 Dec 5:03PM

  20. touronroute,
    where do you get your facts from? Reading­ other comments, it looks more likely than not. That­ Ferrari complained about Renault mass damper, then­ incorporated it, in their design. Now you say, this­ was not cheating, but a bit of clever design work by­ Ferrari. So the obvious question is, why did the FIA­ ban it. OK than, McLaren copied Ferraris floor­ design, But are you seriously suggesting, that­ McLaren had the technical detail, of this flexing­ floor, but left out the spring? A multi-million pound­ company, with the highest-paid, technicians, missed­ that bit of the detail. And then told the FIA. ho come­ on, this sounds very much like fantasy Island to me,­ all I can say is, you have a very strange way and­ looking at things.

    From paul t, on Tue 2 Dec 5:03PM
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