The car won the 2008 World Drivers' Championship in the hands of Lewis Hamilton, but finished second in the Constructors' Championship, which was won by Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro. It was revealed at Mercedes-Benz's motor sport museum in Stuttgart on 7 January 2008, and it had its first on-track appearance at Circuito Permanente de Jerez in Spain on 9 January.
The chassis was designed by Paddy Lowe, Neil Oatley, Tim Goss, Andrew Bailey and Simon Lacey, with Mario Illien and Andy Cowell designing the Mercedes-Benz engine. The McLaren MP4-23 was a Formula One racing car that was constructed by the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team to compete in the 2008 Formula One World Championship. Mobil 1 Lubricants, newly developed 2008 formula for lower friction and better wear resistance McLaren Applied Technologies 7-speed + 1 reverse sequential seamless semi-automatic paddle shift with epicyclic differential and multi-plate limited slip clutch Mercedes-Benz FO 108V 2.4 litre V8 Naturally aspirated, mid-engined Moulded carbon fibre/aluminium honeycomb composite incorporating front and side impact structures
To follow in the slipstream of two World Champion drivers and take the pioneering McLaren MP4-25 out for a spin on the Simraceway tracks, buy it now.Mark Williams (Head of Vehicle Engineering) Over the entire 2010 season the MP4-25's Mercedes-Benz 2.4-litre V8 engine carried Hamilton to three wins and Button to two, with the pair racking up 16 podium appearances and three one-two finishes, at the Chinese, Turkish and Canadian Grands Prix. The car, sporting a larger fuel tank than the MP4-24, a bold engine cover fin and an innovative rear wing design that took advantage of a small duct in front of the cockpit to decrease drag on the straights, immediately proved more competitive than its predecessor, gaining its first victory in only the second race of the season in Australia. The first car to be raced by Vodafone McLaren Mercedes' World Championship-winning pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, the MP4-25 represented McLaren with distinction during the 2010 Formula One season, leading the British team to a creditable second-place in the World Constructors' Championship and taking Hamilton and Button to 4th and 5th respectively in the Drivers' Championship.
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