Formula One, Levis Hamilton and Mercedes
In addition to celebrating his birthday number 23, Lewis Hamilton has other reason to be happy, because not only renewed his contract with McLaren for a sum of 138 million dollars, but it already has Mercedes MP4-23 ready, the new vehicle in which pursue the title of champion that he escaped in 2007.
The new Silver Arrow was finished literally at the last minute and then transported 1,000 miles to the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. His presentation was carried out by Dieter Zetsche, head of Daimler maximum, who was accompanied by other senior executives, the press and 700 workers at the plant in Stuttgart. After the event the MP4-23 was returned to the truck, embarking on his trip to the Circuito de Jerez, where Hamilton and his new pair, Heikki Kovalainen, will begin testing rigorously. As the development of this model began in November 2006, it is no surprise that McLaren is already working on a replacement.