McLaren MP4-28

McLaren MP4-28

Sergio Pérez in the MP4-28 during pre-season tests in Barcelona
Constructor:	McLaren
Designer:	Paddy Lowe
Predecessor:	McLaren MP4-27
Successor:	McLaren MP4-29
Technical specifications
Engine:	Mercedes-Benz FO 108F , V8 engine
Width:	1800 mm
Weight:	642 kg (including driver and ballast)
Tires:	Pirelli
Petrol:	ExxonMobil
statistics
Driver:	5. Jenson Button 6. Sergio Pérez
First start:	2013 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	2013 Brazilian Grand Prix
Starts Victories Poles SR 19th - - 1
World Cup points:	122
Podiums:	-
Leadership laps:	8 over 43,792 km
Status: end of season 2013

The McLaren MP4-28 was the Formula 1 - racing cars , the British Motorsport Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes in the Formula 1 World Championship 2013 began. The car was presented on January 31, 2013 in Woking .

Technology and development

The MP4-28 was the successor to the MP4-27 from 2012. The car developed by Paddy Lowe was, like most other vehicles of the 2013 season, a further development of the predecessor; with the McLaren however, the changes were more profound than with the vehicles of the competition. Compared to its predecessor, the MP4-28 had a higher front and hid the resulting "nasal hump" through the newly introduced vanity panel . The raised nose of the car created more space for improved airflow under the car. In addition, the front suspension worked with tension struts instead of compression struts, which lowered the center of gravity in the front area of ​​the car and ensured that the airflow from the front wing could be better used. The side pods, which were moved further to the rear, also improved the air flow in the rear area. On the rear wheels, the drive shaft and wishbone were now combined in one element.

The MP4-28 was powered by a V8 engine called Mercedes-Benz FO 108F with a displacement of 2.4 liters, which developed an output of around 550 kW (around 750 hp). The KERS was an in-house development by Mercedes, the brakes came from Akebono, the rims from Enkei , and the tires were provided by the standard supplier Pirelli .

Like all Formula 1 vehicles of the 2013 season, the MP4-28 was equipped with KERS and DRS .

Painting and sponsorship

The MP4-28 was chrome colored. The side pods and the parts of the front and rear wing were painted red based on the main sponsor Vodafone . Further sponsor stickers came from Mobil 1 , Hugo Boss and TAG Heuer .

driver

Jenson Button stayed with McLaren. His new team-mate was the former Sauber driver Sergio Pérez , who joined the team as the successor to Lewis Hamilton .

2013 season

The season was bad for the McLaren team. The MP4-28 showed deficits in the first races of the year. McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh was quoted as saying, "There is no evidence that anything is wrong with the car". In the first half of the season, the McLaren drove only in midfield. In July 2013, Whitmarsh announced that it would stop the development of the MP4-28 in order to concentrate fully on the development of the vehicle for 2014 .

After the tires for the Hungarian Grand Prix were brought up to the level of the previous season by Pirelli, McLaren stabilized and regularly drove into the points with both drivers. At the last race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix, Button achieved the best result of the season for the team with fourth place. After winning seven races last year , for the first time since 1980 no McLaren driver achieved a podium finish. At the end of the season, McLaren finished fifth in the Constructors' World Championship.

In retrospect, Sergio Pérez described the MP4-28 as one of the worst racing cars of its career.

Results

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	Points	rank
Formula 1 season 2013																					122	5.
J. Button	5	9	17 *	5	10	8th	6th	12	13	6th	7th	6th	10	7th	8th	9	14th	12	10	4th
S. Perez	6th	11	9	11	6th	9	16 *	11	20 *	8th	9	11	12	8th	10	15th	5	9	7th	6th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : McLaren MP4-28  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Key Year Anniversary: ​​MP4-28 unveiled in Woking. Motorsport-Total.com, January 31, 2013, accessed January 31, 2013 . 
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3. ↑ McLaren 2013: A little more ambitious. Motorsport-Total.com, January 31, 2013, accessed January 31, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Anderson senses advances in McLaren new cars. Motorsport-Total.com, January 31, 2013, accessed February 22, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Technical data of the McLaren-Mercedes MP4-28. Motorsport-Total.com, January 31, 2013, accessed January 31, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Sven Haidinger: The perfect laboratory car fails in the wild. Motorsport-Total.com, April 4, 2013, accessed May 16, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Whitmarsh: 'Decision was not an easy one for us'". Motorsport-Total.com, July 10, 2013, accessed July 12, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Vanessa Georgoulas: "Sergio Pérez: 'The worst car of my career'". speedweek.com, September 19, 2015, accessed September 19, 2015 .