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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Fernando Alonso won the race in Bahrain at his debut for Ferrari after he imposed in front of team-mate, Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton.
After a disappointing 2009 season, Ferrari and McLaren came back in force this year and are announced as World Title main contestants.
Starting on the 3rd position in the grid, Fernando Alonso made his debut at Scuderia Ferrari in the style of great champion and brought the first victory for the Prancing Horse, after he overtook his team-mate Felipe Massa at start and took advantage of the Sebastian Vettel’s engine problems and crossed the finish line first.
Massa and Hamilton have completed first podium of the season, the last one of them achieving this performance and after he overtook Nico Rosberg after the pit stop in the first part of the race. The great disappointment of the race was Vettel, who dominated the first two thirds of the race, but, in the
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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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Scuderia Ferrari forecasts a 2010 Formula 1 season dominated by their team, the Italians seeing in Fernando Alonso the driver that can be as good as Michael Schumacher. “Ferrari needs someone for the team similar to Schumi, ” said Stefano Domenicali, the Italian’s boss, to Auto Bild. “[Raikkonen is] very fast, but also very closed. In a car that is capable of winning, he was and is perfect – but if the car needs to be developed and the team fired up, Alonso is better,” Stefano Domenicali, the F1 team chief also added.
In another train of thoughts, the Scuderia officials hope that the 2007 Alonso-Hamilton episode (the two had a personal war, and the Formula 1 world title was then concurred by Kimi Raikkonen) will repeat inside the McLaren F1 Team, but to be mentioned that Alonso’s place in the equation will be taken by Button, the en-titre world champion.
McLaren Mercedes, Ferarri’s big rival, signed Jenson
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