Formula 1 Mac Laren SCX Compact Fernando Alonso

The MP4-22 has the cockpit lower to the previous models, according to the demands of the double champion Fernando Alonso. With this model he is trying to renew the titles obtained in 2005 and 2006 with Renault and become one of the famous drivers winning three Formula 1 championships.The car was tested by Alonso in middle January in the McLaren official presentation in Valencia.The MP4-22, that started to be designed at the end of 2005 and was finished last summer (2006), keeps only 5% of the approximately 11,500 pieces of the previous model. The rear wing also supports several changes, resting now in a central support and two lateral ones, similarly to that of the R26, that allowed him to renew the title.The nose is still keeping very low but the extractors in the lateral sidepods are bigger to channel the air better towards the rear wing, although one of the most radical changes that has been introduced in the new car is the rear diffusor. Aerodynamically, the car is about 95% new. McLaren-Mercedes has used Alonso well known abilities to help the aerodynamic department chief engineers with ‘new ideas’. The MP4-22 was presented on January the 15th in Valencia and it was huge, the event took on gargantuan proportions on a awesome circuit around the Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias in Valencia (Spain), far from the homeland of their star (Fernando Alonso), newly crowned world champ Fernando Alonso (Asturias, Spain) but a wonderful and big city by the Mediterranean sea and where the 2007 America’s Cup has been successfully organized (next edition will also be in Valencia, Spain). Alonso and new teammate Lewis Hamilton form one of the youngest driver line-ups in the history of the sport and Hamilton in particular wondered just how big F1 would be when the pair unveiled the new livery in two MP4-21 race cars in front of a crowd of more than 150,000. This was followed by the unveiling of the 2007 car, the MP4-22.