{"id":1171,"date":"2010-01-04T06:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2010-01-04T06:28:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:28:04","slug":"mclaren-to-test-new-car-at-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-to-test-new-car-at-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren to test new car at Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">McLaren&#8217;s 2010 car will be tested for the first time at Valencia at the beginning of February, the British team has announced.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Called the MP4-25, it will bear the number 1 for team newcomer and world champion Jenson Button, and run alongside its rivals at the initial Spanish group test.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really cannot wait to get out to Valencia and get my first run in the MP4-25 &#8212; I think that&#8217;s when it will finally sink in that I&#8217;m a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver,&#8221; Button said in a team statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Briton&#8217;s countryman and teammate Lewis Hamilton confirmed he will also be at the first test at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Cheste, located about 20km from the Valencia port.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be sharing the pre-season testing equally, and it will be important to keep a crossover of information between us to make sure we are both pulling in the right direction,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, the 2008 champion, admitted he is yet to begin building a working relationship with Button, after two seasons alongside Heikki Kovalainen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our paths haven&#8217;t really crossed since he was announced at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes back in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve both been to MTC (Woking) for our seat fittings \u2013- but they were on different days,&#8221; answered Hamilton when asked about Button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first time we&#8217;ll start working together is later this month, when we&#8217;ll both be at Woking together, then we&#8217;ll have the launch and the first test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9RIF\/GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren&#8217;s 2010 car will be tested for the first time at Valencia at the beginning of February, the British team has announced. \u00a0 Called the MP4-25, it will bear the number 1 for team newcomer and world champion Jenson Button, and run alongside its rivals at the initial Spanish group test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,153,154,5284,268,267,5308,5309,269],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}