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2006 McLaren-Mercedes MP4-21
Pictured is a 2006 McLaren-Mercedes MP4-21 Grand Prix Car. The car is painted in 2007 McLaren livery which featured on the MP4-22.
It was driven in 2006 by Kimi Raikkonen, Juan-Pablo Montoya and Pedro de la Rosa. This was not one of McLaren's finest, the team failing to win a race all season for the first time since 1996.
All three drivers would finish as high as second during 2006, Raikkonen in Australia and Italy, Montoya in Monaco (his final F1 podium before switching to NASCAR mid-season) and a debut podium for de la Rosa in Hungary.
The McLaren drivers finished fifth (Raikkonen), eighth (Montoya) and eleventh (de la Rosa) in the final standings. McLaren finished third in the constructors standings.
The 2007 version was driven by Fernando Alonso and F1 newcomer Lewis Hamilton. The MP4-22 won eight of the seventeen Grands Prix (four each for Alonso and Hamilton), the drivers finishing equal second in the Drivers Championship. Both were beaten at the final round by Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to miss out by a single point.
McLaren acquired an unenviable achievement in 2007. Having been found in posession of Ferrari technical information, they were fined $100 million and excluded from the Constructors Championship in September.
Incidentally, had they not been excluded, they would still have lost the constructors title to Ferrari on points.
Pictured in January 2008 at the Autosport International show at the NEC in Birmingham.
2006 McLaren-Mercedes MP4-21
Pictured is a 2006 McLaren-Mercedes MP4-21 Grand Prix Car. The car is painted in 2007 McLaren livery which featured on the MP4-22.
It was driven in 2006 by Kimi Raikkonen, Juan-Pablo Montoya and Pedro de la Rosa. This was not one of McLaren's finest, the team failing to win a race all season for the first time since 1996.
All three drivers would finish as high as second during 2006, Raikkonen in Australia and Italy, Montoya in Monaco (his final F1 podium before switching to NASCAR mid-season) and a debut podium for de la Rosa in Hungary.
The McLaren drivers finished fifth (Raikkonen), eighth (Montoya) and eleventh (de la Rosa) in the final standings. McLaren finished third in the constructors standings.
The 2007 version was driven by Fernando Alonso and F1 newcomer Lewis Hamilton. The MP4-22 won eight of the seventeen Grands Prix (four each for Alonso and Hamilton), the drivers finishing equal second in the Drivers Championship. Both were beaten at the final round by Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to miss out by a single point.
McLaren acquired an unenviable achievement in 2007. Having been found in posession of Ferrari technical information, they were fined $100 million and excluded from the Constructors Championship in September.
Incidentally, had they not been excluded, they would still have lost the constructors title to Ferrari on points.
Pictured in January 2008 at the Autosport International show at the NEC in Birmingham.