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Tuesday, February 27
Preview: McLaren
Reuters

LONDON -- Following are facts and figures about the McLaren team heading into the 2001 Formula One season:

	2001 Outlook
	Two times champion Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard start a record sixth season together as Formula One's longest running partnership. McLaren are hungry to recapture their titles and Briton Coulthard has said the new MP4-16 has made him more confident than ever. Hakkinen has also said he feels less pressure. Title contenders as ever.

Based: Woking, England.

Team principal: Ron Dennis

Drivers:
Mika Hakkinen (Finland), 32 (born Sept 28, 1968)
David Coulthard (Britain), 29 (March 27, 1971)

Test driver: Alexander Wurz (Austria), 26 (Feb 15, 1974).

Car: McLaren MP4-16, powered by Mercedes V10.
Tires: Bridgestone.
Technical director: Adrian Newey.

Formula One record:
Grand Prix: 509 started, poles 110, wins 130.
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.

2000 season (Hakkinen/Coulthard) - Second, 152 points. Seven wins (Hakkinen four, Coulthard three). Second place x10, third x5, fourth x3, five x1, six x1, seven x1, retired x5, disqualified x1.

McLaren docked 10 points for technical infringement on Mika Hakkinen's car at Austrian GP. Coulthard disqualified in Brazilian Grand Prix after finishing second.

Team history
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.

Season by season (year, standing, points, 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)

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