F1 Team Facts and Figures: McLaren

LONDON (Reuters) -- Following are facts and figures about the McLaren team ahead of the 2002 Formula One season:

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     Based: Woking, England
     Team principal: Ron Dennis.
     Drivers:
     David Coulthard (Britain) 30 (March 27 1971)
     Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) 22 (October 17 1979)
     Test driver: Alexander Wurz (Austria) 28 (February 15 1974)
     Car: McLaren MP4-17, powered by Mercedes V10.
     Tyres: Michelin.
     Technical director: Adrian Newey.
     Formula One record:
     Grands prix: 526 started, poles 112, wins 134, points
2,681.5.
     Constructors' titles: Eight - 1974, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989,
1990, 1991, 1998.
     Drivers' titles: 11
            1999 - Mika Hakkinen (Finland)
            1998 - Hakkinen
            1991 - Ayrton Senna (Brazil)
            1990 - Senna
            1989 - Alain Prost (France)
            1988 - Senna
            1986 - Prost
            1985 - Prost
            1984 - Niki Lauda (Austria)
            1976 - James Hunt (Britain)
            1974 - Emerson Fittipaldi (Brazil)
     First GP entered: Monaco, 1966
     First GP win: Belgium 1968, Bruce McLaren.
     2001 season (Mika Hakkinen/Coulthard) - Second, 102 points.
four wins (Hakkinen two, Coulthard two). Second place x3, third
x6, fourth x4, five x3, six x2. Retired 12.
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     Team milestones:
     1963 - New Zealander Bruce McLaren forms Bruce McLaren Motor
Racing Limited.
     1966 - Grand Prix debut at Monaco
     1968 - First win in Belgium.
     1970 - McLaren killed in testing at Goodwood, England.
     1974 - McLaren wins first drivers' title with Fittipaldi and
first constructors' title.
     1995 - Mercedes join as engine suppliers.
     McLaren are the only team to have won four successive
drivers' and constructors' titles.
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     Season by season (year, standing, points, wins, drivers):
     1966 - ninth, two points, 0 (Bruce McLaren).
     1967 - 10th, three, 0 (McLaren)
     1968 - second, 49, 3 (Denny Hulme/McLaren).
     1969 - fourth, 38, 1 (McLaren/Hulme).
     1970 - fourth equal, 35, 0 (McLaren/Hulme/Peter Gethin/Dan
Gurney/Andrea de Adamich).
     1971 - sixth, 10, 0 (Hulme/Gethin/Jackie Oliver)
     1972 - third, 47, 1 (Hulme/Brian Redman/Peter Revson)
     1973 - third, 58, 3 (Hulme/Revson/Jody Scheckter).
     1974 - first, 73, 4 (Mike Hailwood/Hulme/Emerson
Fittipaldi/David Hobbs/Jochen Mass).
     1975 - third, 53, 3 (Fittipaldi/Mass)
     1976 - second, 74, 6 (James Hunt/Mass)
     1977 - third, 60, 3 (Hunt/Mass).
     1978 - eighth, 15, 0 (Hunt/Patrick Tambay/Bruno Giacomelli).
     1979 - seventh, 15, 0 (John Watson/Tambay).
     1980 - seventh equal, 11, 0 (Watson/Alain Prost)
     1981 - sixth, 28, 1 (Watson/Andrea De Cesaris)
     1982 - second, 69, 4 (Niki Lauda/Watson)
     1983 - fifth, 34, 1 (Lauda/Watson).
     1984 - first, 143.5, 12 (Lauda/Prost)
     1985 - first, 90, 6 (Lauda/Prost/Watson).
     1986 - second, 96, 4 (Prost/Keke Rosberg)
     1987 - second, 76, 3 (Prost/Stefan Johansson).
     1988 - first, 199, 15 (Prost/Ayrton Senna).
     1989 - first, 141, 10 (Prost/Senna)
     1990 - first, 121, 6 (Senna/Gerhard Berger).
     1991 - first, 139, 8 (Senna/Berger)
     1992 - second, 99, 5 (Senna/Berger)
     1993 - second, 84, 5 (Senna/Michael Andretti/Mika Hakkinen).
     1994 - fourth, 42, 0 (Martin Brundle/Hakkinen).
     1995 - fourth, 30, 0 (Hakkinen/Mark Blundell/Nigel
Mansell/Jan Magnussen)
     1996 - fourth, 49, 0 (Hakkinen/Coulthard)
     1997 - fourth, 63, 3 (Hakkinen/Coulthard)
     1998 - first, 156, 9 (Hakkinen/Coulthard)
     1999 - second, 124, 7 (Hakkinen/Coulthard)
     2000 - second, 152, 7 (Hakkinen/Coulthard)

 

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