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The appearance of an upper level vacancy on the McLaren Automotive website suggests one direction the company might take.

The last time McLaren fought for the world championship it was with you. Are they in better shape now than they were then?

On top of that, Hamilton will also take along one lucky visitor on a ride up the Festival's hill-climb in the Mercedes-McLaren SLR supercar.

In Shanghai, it was obvious right from Friday practice that McLaren were going to be very hard to beat.

So Haug, racing boss of McLaren's works partner Mercedes-Benz, said it is too soon to say that Thursday's form is the beginning of a trend.

McLaren says no Ferrari intellectual property passed to any other members of the team or was incorporated into its cars.

Q. Do you think the rate of development at Ferrari is the same as you experienced at McLaren?

The engine beating at the heart of this year's McLaren car rotates at up to 20, 000 revolutions per minute.

Only McLaren and Ferrari used KERS in Istanbul over the weekend, but even so BMW's Mario Theissen did not vote to ban the systems.

Kovalainen will step up to become Giancarlo Fisichella's team mate when Fernando Alonso leaves for McLaren at the end of the season.

According to The Guardian, 'McLaren insiders expect Fernando Alonso to leave the team at the end of this season.

As McLaren have always said, the championship should be decided on the racetrack and not in the courtroom.

The pair were teammates at McLaren in 2007, before Spaniard Alonso fell out with the Woking based team's management and returned to Renault.

As McLaren's difficult season hit a high point with fourth place in Bahrain, Lewis Hamilton admitted he did consider throwing in the towel.

In McLaren's case it was more about a lack of traction, overheating tyres and oversteer.

RB: To be honest with you, when I had conversations with McLaren it was: do you want to do that or not?

But arid Adelaide recycles over 30% of its water, and to its south, the vineyards of McLaren Vale are irrigated with the city's waste water.

Q. We've seen Fernando at McLaren did not work out as there were two drivers challenging for the championship.

On July 26, McLaren had to answer charges from the FIA that it had broken rules, threatening its title ambitions.

A spokesperson of the McLaren team has denied Lewis Hamilton ran a stop sign when he had a minor road accident in Switzerland recently.

McLaren isn't making a secret out of it. They are hoping to get Alonso in their car as quickly as possible.

Injection moulder McLaren Plastics has invested in two new Arburg Golden Edition machines as part of its long-term replacement programme.

I just wonder how you see that battle developing in the remaining races and how strong McLaren will be versus the safety car.

Q. After being so dominant in Australia, has it been a surprise about how quickly McLaren could catch up?

I guess Hungaroring was the last circuit, where we beforehand expected to have some problems against McLaren.

The formula one veteran is close to both drivers, as a Spanish compatriot of Alonso, and the main test driver for Hamilton's team McLaren.

He admits that, with Ferrari's Luca di Montezemolo at the forefront of the alliance, McLaren is not the driving force of FOTA.

Lewis Hamilton could "destroy his career" if he hastily quits McLaren over the lie-gate scandal, Sir Jackie Stewart has warned.

Webber made short work of the McLaren driver but a brief off in the tricky conditions at turn seven returned the position to Hamilton.

A young man called Malcolm Mclaren formed the band "The Sex Pistols" , which was the pioneer of the British punk revolution.

You were quickest on Friday and Saturday; how do you think the race will be with McLaren Mercedes?

In an acrimonious season, McLaren was fined $100 million in a spying scandal and docked all of its constructors points.

McLaren Roadster as Design projects Italian Design students drew their conception of a McLaren Roadsters as termination work.

The location for all this planning is the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey.

So what's the first high-performance sports car planned to come out of MPC? McLaren says that the MPC will release its first. . .

But a bit like Mr Hamilton's racing car, not all is running sweetly at McLaren.

He is a very special driver and obviously everybody at McLaren wishes him all the best in his future career.

Normally we know that McLaren are fast over a single lap and that this is a trade-off with consistency and pace during the race.

MW: I was very pleased to have had lunch with David earlier this week at the McLaren Technology Centre.

Q. Is the atmosphere at Ferrari better than it is at McLaren?

"Red Bull, McLaren and Renault have been very quick and they have shown their cards, while we are still hiding ours, " he said.

Clearly, Hamilton's inflated ego is merely symptomatic of a wider, endemic culture within McLaren-Mercedes.

But Mr Dennis is betting that by the time the new McLaren sports cars go on sale in 2011, economies will be recovering.

The company, currently sponsoring McLaren, said it will be Ferrari's "main" sponsor from next season.

Button insists McLaren are working hard to eradicate their own reliability issues, which proved costly in the last two races.

For Stepney to share 780 pages of confidential Ferrari technical information with a McLaren employee was a heinously treacherous act.

I started to do it to help my [then] partner Malcolm McLaren, because I could always make things.

However Dennis ruled himself out as a possible successor to Max Mosley earlier this year whilst still Team Principal at McLaren Mercedes.

LH : I think McLaren and Ferrari will both be competitive in the last two races, as will BMW and Renault but who knows who's going to win?

Britain's McLaren versus Italy's Ferrari is one of the world's great motor sports rivalries.

Former McLaren driver David Coulthard thinks the Woking based team should not be formally punished.

Norbert Haug, Mercedes-Benz's F1 boss, has admitted interest in seeing his German countryman Nico Rosberg at the wheel of a McLaren.

The bawdy Middle Ages, as Mr McLaren explains in his admirably deadpan prose, "once again made impotence a laughing matter" .

There was something missing from McLaren's victory celebrations today.

In the third race of the season , in Bahrain , McLaren "fumbled the ball " , says Neale .

Honda were quick this morning, but not so much in qualifying and McLaren were a little bit down.

Last month, Chairman Ron Dennis confirmed that McLaren is working on a line of new high-performance cars, including a successor to the F1.

It's true that McLaren has improved a lot over the last two races, but we also know that the situation can change in the blink of an eye.

At the start of the year McLaren was much worse off than us, but after the FIA allowed the double diffusers, they overtook us.

Lewis Hamilton is number one at McLaren and you and Kimi (Raikkonen) are equal at Ferrari.

McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh said at the Nurburgring last weekend that Vatanen would be a "quite good" candidate.

Cisco Systems, McLaren Electronic Systems and Accenture are among the project's partners, according to Fast Company.

The race car driver has also agreed to personally chauffeur one random festival attendee in a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.

Despite that, Alonso reckons McLaren's performance throughout the year justifies his move.

Due in attendance are the likes of McLaren, BMW Sauber, Renault, Honda, Williams, Midland, Red Bull and Toro Rosso.

This is where much of McLaren's design work takes place, but it is in far-flung corners of the globe that the ideas are put into practice.

Despite the improvements, Kovalainen warned that getting into the top 10 in qualifying is still a challenge for the McLaren MP4-24.

Ferrari will be very strong, McLaren maybe as well if they can maintain their speed from Monaco.

Ferrari and McLaren should have revised rear wings, together with BMW Sauber, following clarifications agreed in Sepang.

McLaren on Thursday night announced it will not appeal the decision to disqualify Lewis Hamilton from the Australian grand prix.

Q. Do you think Ferrari are still a more competitive force than McLaren?

Partnerships are the lifeblood of McLaren and its rival teams.

Asked about his description of McLaren as first of the fixed-wing cars after a qualifying session dominated by Red Bull, Whitmarsh grimaced.

During the last four races we had the faster car than McLaren.

In the modern era Mr McLaren changes gear, highlighting three approaches to impotence: Freud, feminism and pharmacology.

Black livery? Er, no: the same Rocket Red & chrome finish that you've grown to love since Vodafone McLaren Mercedes was born in 2007. . .

"McLaren are a great team and Lewis and I have known each other for a long time, so I guess, yeah, " Rosberg answered.

You drove for McLaren in the past, what do you think the team is going through?

Provided Ferrari can find an answer to McLaren's performance, Schumacher sees no reason why a similar reversal can't happen this year.

Don't forget that the sleeping dogs of McLaren and Ferrari are going to wake up soon.

McLaren 's income comes from prize money and sponsorships; research and development funds from Mercedes Benz .

Hamilton of McLaren and Ferrari pair Felipe Massa and Raikkonen are not members of the GPDA but attend meetings.

McLaren is not alone in working on resin-transfer and other ways of making carbon-composite components in large quantities.

Button's McLaren team has now won two consecutive races, after Lewis Hamilton triumphed in Germany one week previously.

This puts it ahead of such names as the Yankees, Lakers, Ferrari and McLaren.

I go into every race expecting to win but any one of six drivers from the three teams [BMW, McLaren and Ferrari] can do well .

The Briton admitted that his current commercial arrangement with McLaren and Mercedes is for engines only.

Q: Do you feel for McLaren in their situation at the moment, a good team that has come into some problems?

McLaren Packaging, which produces packaging for Scotch whisky, has announced plans to build a new factory and double its workforce.

it's the collaboration product of Mercedes-Benz SLR and the legendary British sports car manufacturer McLaren.

He knew Renault's winning streak couldn't last forever and correctly foresaw McLaren's fortunes on the rise.

Meanwhile, McLaren have finally tested their static front wheel fairings .

McLaren Formula One car started its engine, a door opened, and the car roared down the narrow catwalk.

Oh, right: Barnard was a Formula 1 designer, having previously worked at McLaren and Lola.

Rumour has it that Ferrari has made the most of the new rules, with McLaren being an easy second. As early as Melbourne, but.

Since then we have constantly and regularly kept McLaren and the FIA informed on all relevant findings.

It is believed Hamilton, and McLaren's own PR camp, have not made a decision about bringing in Fuller.

There followed a 17 year period with the Brabham Formula One team and an 18 year period at McLaren in both Formula One and Road Car Design.

The race after that, in Monaco, McLaren was back, with Alonso first and Hamilton second.

The Mclaren Vale area is well known for its ability to produce full flavoured red wines.

look at mclaren , both cars wiped out in the first two corners.

Mazak, the Japanese machine tooling and manufacturing process group, has worked with McLaren since 1999 .

"You have to go to the absolute top teams. Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull . . . all those teams have no place, " added Sutil.

But, hopefully, it's now better for Jenson because I learned a lot from that season and McLaren did as well.

In reaction, McLaren vowed to "cooperate fully" with the FIA process.

Q: Heikki, some people are saying your role in McLaren is a support role for Lewis Hamilton.

About McLaren I am not so sure - because of the high-speed corners they might suffer a bit more.

Clearly McLaren's explanation is partially correct.

As it is, we now have a potentially serious state of affairs for McLaren.

McLaren is considering scrapping the 2009 season and turning its full attention and resources to next year.

During the course of testing and racing a single car in a single season, McLaren goes through 1, 000 sets of tyres.

The high stakes begin to explain why McLaren's battle with Ferrari has become particularly pointed.

Coincidentally, the McLaren and the CLK-GTR now both reside on the Show and Display list.

McLaren team principle Martin Whitmarsh chose to attend the hearing with the World Motor Sports Council in Paris alone.

McLaren's duo Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen have used Mercedes' KERS consistently in 2009.

Which all narrows the options for McLaren to Pedro de la Rosa, their test driver.

However, McLaren overstated the case.

On another subject, he talked about the depth of high-quality, ego-free people he has working at McLaren these days.

Today McLaren revealed its plans to build a new UK production center where it will build the car along with two new high-end sports cars.

While McLaren and Ferrari thus had good news and bad, so did Renault.

It reckons the task has been made easier by its high visibility as McLaren's sponsor.

I am not saying that yes I could have signed for McLaren, because it was only two conversations.

Hakkinen of Finland had his first test in the 1996 Mclaren Formula One Car at the Estoril track in Portugal 0n Thursday.

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes expect a much more stable year in season 08.

Days ago, Mercedes' F1 boss Norbert Haug played down reports he is openly hinting at a McLaren seat for Rosberg in 2010.

McLaren's loss was thus Ferrari's gain, and if we are honest about it Ferrari were way off second place until Villeneuve crashed.

The one-two left Alonso 34 points behind McLaren's leader Lewis Hamilton, with eight races remaining.

Red Bull's Vettel leads the drivers' standings by 124 points from McLaren's Button.

secondly, his McLaren well performanced in the damp weather.

McLaren agreed that a "two-tier" system is not desirable.

The ICA would still need to accept McLaren's appeal, though, and in that case a date will be set for the hearing.

That problem aside, where do you see your team relative to McLaren right now?

Scandal aside, Stewart also wonders if a better option than McLaren really exists for the Briton.

Since 1912, D'Arenberg has produced wines from their winery located in McLaren Vale, South Australia.

Q. Fernando says he is working harder at McLaren than before. How is it for you?

We went there thinking we won't be in front of Ferrari and McLaren, but we will be there or thereabouts .

Behind the wheel of the 627 horsepower McLaren F1: The Stig.

Mr Dennis now owns 15% of the McLaren group.

McLaren are languishing in third with 42 points.

Henkel of Germany has worked with McLaren for 13 years.

McLaren went to Paul Ricard and Barcelona, Honda to Vallelunga and Paul Ricard.

The following season he was forced to play second fiddle to McLaren' s Mika Hakkinen, who was crowned champion.

I think Ferrari is a strong team in general, like McLaren, and also like Renault, and we will come back.

McLaren also has a new diffuser in China, but it is merely a development of its conventional design.

I am sure Lewis and Jenson Button will have fights at McLaren.

It takes just four hours to make the MonoCell (see right), as McLaren calls the carbon-fibre chassis it uses in the MP4-12C.

Kovalainen, meanwhile, completed 90 laps in McLaren's MP4-23.

Ted: Where do you feel McLaren are on pace compared to Renault?

McLaren said that they didn't lose the win because of Lewis Hamilton's slow pit stop, but because your car was so good.

Malcolm Mclaren's girlfriend at that time is Vivienne Westwood at present, who opened a small shop selling punk clothes exclusively.

"I think it's because the English hate kids, " said McLaren, who died this year.

Do you feel you have the edge over McLaren here?

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