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2013 McLaren MP4 28 F1

The new McLaren MP4-28 is an evolution, with some revolution. The engineers speak of calculated risk. Jenson Button and Sergio Perez are good things to be able to go this year for the title.
At the beginning of the presentation of the new MP4 -28 was a movie. Was telling a fictional story from the past. Company founder Bruce McLaren talked about his life and his death on 2 June 1970 in Goodwood. The four-time GP winner, who died while testing his CanAm car, packed his too short career in the message: "Never be satisfied with what you have." That should be the motto of his heirs. The team is the New Zealander on 2 September this year 50 years old.
  

Part two of the McLaren anniversary show told the story of the team using real cars. The milestones of McLaren pulled up at the factory in Woking. They came through the entrance on the banks of the artificial lake brought up and were then placed in the foyer past the veiled McLaren MP4-28 into a provisional starting grid.
Vorneweg that McLaren M8D in which Bruce McLaren was killed. Then the McLaren M23, who won the first two World Cup titles for the team with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt. Followed by the legendary McLaren MP 4 -4 from 1988, which was victorious in 15 of the 16 Grand Prix, the first road car from McLaren, the MP4-13 Mika Hakkinen In 1998, the world champion and the MP4-23 in 2008, Lewis Hamilton in the last World Cup brought to Woking.
At the very end came Jenson Button and Sergio Perez in two current road racers - the MP4-12C Spider and the super athlete P1 - rolled into the lobby.


The McLaren MP4-23 in 2008 was the counterpoint to the 2013er model, a few minutes later under a white blanket appeared. 2008 was the last year with the old wing proportions. At that time, the cars were still vollgeflastert with fins, fins and winglets. Against the extreme aerodynamic outgrowth of GP history sees the McLaren MP4-28 out of almost naked.
And yet, he and his five year old predecessor something in common. It marks the end of an era. 2014 everything will be different. Do you go "last year, the conservative way of regulations and build an evolution or are you trying something new we have chosen the middle ground The new car involves risks: and therein lies the charm of this season, as McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale said?. , but which are well calculated. "