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F1 2017 to Feature Four Historic McLarens
July 20, in the year of our Lord 2017 --
Codemasters® and Koch Media have today revealed the final
classic cars to feature in F1™ 2017, the official videogame of
the 2017 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™ showcasing the four
iconic McLarens, including three that were previously
unannounced.
· 1988 McLaren MP4/4 – as driven by Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna
during the 1988 Formula 1™ season. The Honda-powered MP4/4 is
one of the most iconic and dominant Formula One cars ever built,
winning all but one race (15 out of 16) and claiming all but one
pole position in the 1988 season. It was the car that powered
Senna to his first world championship title.
· 1991 McLaren MP4/6 - During the 1991 season, this was driven
by the then reigning World Champion Ayrton Senna and Gerhard
Berger, and was considered by some to be the most competitive
car ever at the time, taking eight wins and ten pole positions,
and scored 148 points, with Senna winning his third and final
world championship title.
· 1998 McLaren MP4-13 - In the 1998 F1™ season the MP4-13 was
driven by Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard and again proved to
be the dominant car of the season, with Häkkinen winning his
first Drivers' Championship, and McLaren's securing their first
constructor's title since 1991.
· 2008 McLaren MP4-23 – the MP4-23 was driven by Lewis Hamilton
and Heikki Kovalainen in the 2008 season, and is notable for
being the car in which Hamilton won his first World Drivers'
Championship in dramatic fashion at the Brazilian Grand Prix by
overtaking Toyota's Timo Glock on the final corner of the final
lap of the final grand prix of the season, to claim the required
5th-place finish and win the Drivers' title by a single point
from Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, and become at the time the youngest
driver ever to win the title.
Zak Brown, McLaren Group Executive Director, said: “It’s pretty
hard to pick just four significant McLaren Formula 1 cars – so
all credit to the people at Codemasters for choosing these
iconic, championship-winning machines.
“I don’t think you’d be able to get away without choosing 1988’s
MP4/4 – it’s probably the most iconic F1 car of the last 40
years, a machine that looks as sleek and fast today as when it
was first raced. And it’s superbly complemented by another Senna
car, the V12-engined MP4/6; Mika Hakkinen’s beautiful,
silver-liveried MP4-13, and Lewis Hamilton’s jaw-droppingly
complex MP4-23.
F1 2017 also features an even deeper career mode, numerous
multiplayer enhancements, and a brand new ‘Championships’ game
mode. F1 2017 will release onto PlayStation®4 computer
entertainment system, Xbox One and Windows PC (DVD and via
Steam) worldwide on August 25th 2017.