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The McLaren MP4-28 [7] is a Formula One racing car designed and built by the McLaren team for use in the 2013 Formula One season. The chassis was designed by Paddy Lowe , [ 8 ] Neil Oatley , Tim Goss , Mark Ingham and Marcin Budkowski and was powered by a customer Mercedes-Benz engine.
Before 1988, the most dominant car seen in a single season of F1 had been McLaren's 1984 car, the John Barnard designed MP4/2 which had won 12 of the 16 races that year driven by Prost and World Champion Niki Lauda (Lauda had defeated Prost in the Drivers' Championship by only half a point). However, the MP4/4's successes eclipsed the MP4/2 not ...
McLaren F1 with all user accessible compartments opened. The McLaren F1 was an early example of a production road car using a complete carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) monocoque chassis structure. Aluminium and magnesium were used for attachment points for the suspension system, inserted directly into the CFRP.
The McLaren MP4/8 was the Formula One car with which the McLaren team competed in the 1993 Formula One World Championship.The car was designed by Neil Oatley around advanced electronics technology including a semi-automatic transmission (which could be switched over to fully automatic), active suspension, two-way telemetry, and traction control systems, that were developed in conjunction with ...
The deal comes as F1’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, thanks to the hit Netflix series “Drive to Survive,” which has spawned a new following.
McLaren stated that they would provide maintenance for the cars and begin racing in 2012 with the CRS Racing team. [76] The MP4-12C was the first car to compete in sportscar racing for the company since the F1 GTR. [77] It received its début with a single car entry for the Spa Francorchamps round of the British GT championship.
The McLaren MP4/5, and its derived sister model, the MP4/5B, were highly successful Formula One racing cars designed by the McLaren Formula One team based in Woking, England, and powered by Honda's naturally-aspirated RA109E and RA100E V10 engines respectively.
The MCL38 was the first McLaren car to win a Grand Prix since the MCL35M in 2021 and the first since the MP4-27 in 2012 to win multiple Grands Prix in a single season. It was also the first McLaren car since the MP4-29 in 2014 to lead the Constructors' Championship and the first since the MP4/13 in 1998 to win it, doing so at the 2024 Abu Dhabi ...