Talks About Cars

It was only two weeks ago when McLaren Mercedes has announced that it has no plans of holding an official launching of its 2008 car. Mercedes Motorsport Vice President Norbert Haug has confirmed however that the MP4-23 will be presented instead on the 7^th of January at the Unterturkheim Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart.

The launching will be attended by Mercedes very own boss and Daimler Chairman Dieter Zetsche. Other details of the MP4-23 together with the photos and technical data will be released after the launch.

However McLaren has made a previous announcement stating that the car would make its first public appearance at an exclusive test at Jerez in the second week of 2008. It can be remembered that in early months of 2007 the team launched an all-new driver partnership with Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton with title sponsorship from Vodafone. The announcement was made in front of a huge crowd in the streets of Valencia.

For this year, McLaren is once again claiming that it has the fastest drivers in its stable with Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen who has just finished his first season in Formula 1. Lewis Hamilton on the other hand will have a hard time taking on the role left by Alonso as the number one driver of the team.