McLaren this morning the car with which MP4/25 Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button will compete in the world championship of Formula One, starting on March 14 in Bahrain.
Button and Hamilton, who first appeared together in public after Button joined the Mercedes team, were responsible for revealing the vehicle chassis, which bears the number 1 to indicate that it will lead the reigning world champion.
Button, who won the last World Cup with a GP car Brawn said he now just wants to “focus on the future” and that the MP4/25 is the future. ”
“The car is awesome, I really want to look more closely, although I know that this team always leaves everything up,” said Button, who will test the new car of McLaren in Valencia on Monday.
Hamilton, who faces his fourth year on the team with which he was world champion in 2008, said seeing the evolution of the car is “a pleasure” and expressed hope that “things go better than the beginning of the season past “when the McLaren team had to overcome some difficulties in the car aerodynamic.
Hamilton was also “proud” of the new car because, he said, “data from the simulator point only positive things” and also because he made “some contribution” to the final result.
The team director Martin Whitmarsh said in the presentation of the car in Newbury (England), that “preparation is the key to success” for what they have put into this car “thousands of hours of work.”
“A car is nothing without a good driver and we have the last two world champions. Our goal is clear: to win the world championship 2010,” said Whitmarsh.
