The new supercar from Woking made its market debut during a lavish ceremony organized at the British supercars builder’s headquarter.
The Brits from McLaren Automotive officially launched on the car market as an independent producer and presented their first product developed entirely in their own workshops. The chief McLaren Automotive, Ron Dennis, introduced the new MP4-12C in front of the audience in the honor of the Formula 1 team with the same name, which won 25% of all races that have taken place in this competition. Also, the Brits are the first to create a Formula 1 car with a carbon fiber chassis.
The British supercar has a weight of 2866 lbs, with only 661 lbs more than the McLaren F1. The model is equipped with a direct-injection V8 that develops 600 hp and 443 lb-ff of torque and 369 of them are offered between 2,000 rpm and 8,000 rpm. The engine and the transmission of
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The British Sports car maker, McLaren , has reached the last phase of the MP4-12C prototype, the road tests. The company will announce next month the performances of the missile, being the foreword the long-awaited market launch, scheduled for next year.
The guys from McLaren always called their prototypes with name of “experimental prototypes”, or briefly, XP. In promo video there are two vehicles, XP10 and XP8, fully “dressed” in mate black vinyl, unlike those before them, which were white and black.
According to the McLaren engineers, the testing sessions for the two prototypes began five weeks ago.
In the four minutes of the promo video, the two prototypes are tested on the roads of the Montblanc Massif, on the roads in Spain, but also on the racing tracks.
The two cars use an improved version of the supercharged McLaren M838T engine and a manual transmission, with optimized gear ratios. “The competitors’ vehicles we’ve tested become nervous
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Felipe Massa set the fastest time on the first day of testing at Valencia and surpassed Michael Schumacher by almost four tenths of a second.
Seven teams in Formula 1 have been started in the first test session this winter to properly prepare for the 2010 season of Formula 1.
In a beautiful, but relatively cold weather, Felipe Massa dominated most of the day, and eventually finished in the first position of the ranking after being clocked with 1:12.574 in the dying minutes of the session. In addition, the Brazilian was the most “hardworking” pilot on the circuit in Valencia, because he made no less than 102 laps.
The great surprise of the day came from the BMW Sauber Team after veteran driver Pedro de la Rosa finished second with 1:12.784.
As was anticipated, Michael Schumacher’s debut at Mercedes GP marked a special interest in the circuit, and the German has emerged on the track during
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McLaren Mercedes launched Friday the new F1 car MP4-25 with the hope to win the world championship in 2010 season.
McLaren held Friday at the Vodafone headquarters in UK the launch festivity for the new F1 car McLaren for the 2010 season. Performers on the stage were Jensson Button and Lewis Hamilton, that have uncovered the McLaren Mercedes MP4-25 car that the team hopes to help them conquer the two world titles this year.
As you can see in the following pictures, McLaren opted for a relatively unconventional design for the new MP4-25.
The engine case is very long, in the style implemented for the first time by the Red Bull Racing Team, making it different from the model developed by the Ferrari rivals. As expected, the nose of the new McLaren F1 car is similar to that used last year by Red Bull Racing and also implemented by Ferrari on their new F10.
McLaren decided to continue using
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Michael Schumacher’s doctor reported that the German is fit and ready to race in Formula 1 in 2010, according to the informations provided by manager Willi Weber.
The German seems to be prepared to pass the FIA medical tests, after Johannes Peil, his personal sports doctor, unveiled that the F1 champion is physically ready to race in Formula One. “Michael is super-fit. Dr Peil said he has made giant progress,” Willi Weber declared, Schumacher’s manager, for the German newspaper Express.
The informations come only a few days after Schumacher informed Scuderia Ferrari that he is “very, very, close” to return in Formula 1, in 2010, with Mercedes GP.
On the other hand, Webber denied the speculations launched by the international press, speculations saying that Schumacher will no longer work with him after he will return in Formula 1, driving for Mercedes GP. “Rubbish. To say I will not be Michael’s manager any more is completely invented. Absolute nonsense,”
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