Formula one: Button to debut 2012 McLaren

LONDON: Jenson Button will have the first run in the new McLaren when pre-season testing starts next month, according to the Formula One team. The new MP4-27 car is due to be launched at the Woking factory in southern England on February 1 with 2009 world champion Button scheduled to kick off testing at the Jerez circuit in Spain on February 7 and 8. Teammate Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 world champion, will take over the final two days on February 9 and 10. Button finished overall runner-up to Red Bull’s double world champion Sebastian Vettel in 2011, with Hamilton fifth overall.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 18^th, 2012.