The 2010 Formula 1 season is only days away. The season already seems to have all the ingredients for one of the most interesting F1 seasons.
Lewis Hamilton’s Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team looks to be in a much better position than it was last year.
Who do you think will be Lewis Hamilton’s main challenger?
McLaren unveiled the new 2010 Formula 1 car: the MP4-25.
The 2010 car look great. The MP4-25 looks relatively similar to last year’s MP4-24 car. Although this time round the car has a longer wheelbase due to the fuel tank volume increase, which has to contain enough fuel to last an entire race distance in 2010.
Do you think Mercedes will give Lewis Hamilton an SLS AMG if he is 2010 F1 world champion? Who knows, they might do (but he would probably buy one himself if he really wanted one).
The Mercedes SLS AMG can be seen in this video, it looks and sounds awesome! Especially doing an incredible stunt in the tunnel!
You looked unstoppable around the Abu Dhabi circuit, but the race brought the first mechanical retirement of your Formula 1 career – was it a weekend of mixed fortunes?
Not really. Of course, it’s disappointing not to finish a race – particularly when you’re at the front leading it – but I have to be realistic: to have got through nearly three seasons of racing and to only now be stopped by a mechanical failure is an incredible statistic.
You almost take reliability for granted these days, so it was weird to be stood in the garage watching the race rather than being in it. But I think we can all be proud of what we’ve achieved this year. We started the season with what was the slowest car in the field, but we never gave up, and on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, you could argue that we had the fastest car out there. That’s an absolutely incredible achievement – and I can’t think of a single team other than Vodafone McLaren Mercedes that could have done that.
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In this video Lewis Hamilton reflects on the race in Brazil and handing his crown to Jenson Button.
Another behind-the-scenes video with Head of McLaren Vehicle Engineering, Mark Williams, being our guide to ‘Mission Control’. We see Mark and his team of engineers, aerodynamicists and strategists as they correlate all the data during Friday’s practice at the Singapore Grand Prix.
This video shows the McLaren team working behind the scenes before the Monza race in Italy.
In this video Lewis Hamilton talks about the final-lap crash in Monza last race as well as the upcoming race in Singapore.
Below’s videos show Mark Grain the Assistant Race Team Chief Mechanic for McLaren in a three-part video diary. Mark takes us through his behind the scenes race weekend at the German GP.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
In this video Lewis Hamilton talks about changes to the car, the team returning from holiday and looking forward to racing in Valencia. Lewis was also looking forward to racing against the ‘living legend’ Michael Schumacher and more. Enjoy.
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