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McLaren covering the miles

The McLaren Formula 1 team has completed the most number of laps so far this year. The team covered approximately 4,200 km's in the past two weeks as the team completed a total of six days of testing at Jerez.

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cLaren is taking full advantage of its four drivers. Race drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen, but also test drivers Gary Paffett and Pedro de la Rosa were seen on track for McLaren to prepare the team's car for the upcoming season, which will start in March.

McLaren's Chief operating officer Martin Whitmarsh said about the team's work so far: "We have now completed six full track days with two MP4-23's and already clocked up approximately 4193km's on our 2008 challenger, 1,000kms of which were covered yesterday alone, and we are only halfway through the third week in January.

"It has been an immensely productive start to our pre-season test programme and is a strong motivation for the team to keep pushing. Although it is far too early in the development stage of the car to be predicting how competitive it will be, initial feedback from the drivers and the team has been positive and we have a huge amount of data on which to base the continuing development programme around."

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