Formula one: Button to debut 2012 McLaren
Jenson Button will have the first run in the new McLaren when pre-season testing starts next month.
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 18th, 2012.
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 18th, 2012.