McLaren win silver medal in environment awards
Apr.30 (McLaren Press Release) Our commitment to carbon reduction and environmental efficiency received further validation last Thursday (April 26) when Vodafone McLaren Mercedes took a silver medal at the 2012 Edison Awards – held at a glittering ceremony in New York. Celebrating innovation and excellence for 25 years, the Edison Awards builds on the founding [...]
Button: Consistency is going to be very important this year
Apr.30 (Apex) Jenson Button believes that consistency will be the telling factor in this year’s F1 world championship which has already witnessed four different winners in the first four races. Button won the opening race of the 2012 F1 world championship season when he powered to Australian Grand Prix victory back in March, but since [...]
Button not keen to test at Mugello next week
Apr.27 (GMM) Jenson Button has said that he sees no point in changing McLaren’s F1 official test programme at Mugello next week, despite team mate Lewis Hamilton indicating he would be keen to be on cockpit duty in Italy. The in-season test in Italy is F1′s first for years, but McLaren had already announced that [...]
On leave Hamilton wants to drive at Mugello test
Apr.24 (GMM) Lewis Hamilton is rethinking McLaren’s scheduled approach to the rare and crucial in-season test at Mugello next week. The British team announced last week that both Hamilton and his teammate Jenson Button would sit out Mugello, so that testers Gary Paffett and Oliver Turvey can run over the three-day session instead. But that [...]
McLaren to review their pitstop procedures after costly fumbles
Apr.23 (Reuters) McLaren will carry out a thorough investigation of their pitstop procedures, after suffering costly holdups during the Bahrain Grand Prix, for the third successive race. Jenson Button’s hopes of victory in China last weekend were wrecked by a slow stop and it was team mate Lewis Hamilton’s turn on Sunday with two agonising [...]
McLaren: Clearly our performance was disappointing
Apr.22 (McLaren Press Release) Bahrain Grand Prix race day report LEWIS HAMILTON: MP4-27A-03 “There are good times and bad times in motor racing. I guess this was just one of those days. “By rights we should have been fighting to finish in the top four today, but it didn’t work out like that in the [...]
Ecclestone invites McLaren onto F1 board
Apr.22 (GMM) McLaren will join top-team rivals Ferrari and Red Bull on F1′s board, in the wake of reports which emerged last month that only Ferrari and Red Bull had been offered the special deals for the new Concorde Agreement, including the right to nominate directors for the sport’s holding company. But new reports on [...]
McLaren: Our intention is to go for the win
Apr.21 (McLaren Press release) Bahrain Grand Prix day two report. Lewis Hamilton: MP4-27A-03 “I’m very happy with how qualifying went and the job the team has done so far this weekend. I’ve put the car on the front row at every race this year, and I feel this was one of my best qualifying performances [...]
McLaren wary of tricky windy conditions at Sakhir
Apr.21 (F1 Media) McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh explained after practice that judging wind speed and direction will be a crucial factor in set-up for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Despite heading the order on Friday morning, McLaren were almost a second off the pace in the afternoon. Whitmarsh, speaking in the FIA press conference explained [...]