Bathurst 12hr 2017 Count down – 6 days
6 days until flag drops on 2017 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12hr event.
The McLaren Tooned Cartoon Series is back with Season 2
Well Tooned is back, the great cartoon series about the McLaren Formula 1 team and their adventures between races.
Last season it featured Jensen Button and Lewis Hamilton, this season with Lewis moving on to Mercedes, there is a new character Sergio Perez
Check out the new episode and all of last years season 1 after the jump
Mclaren to celebrate 50th Anniversary at this years Goodwood Festival of Speed
McLaren is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and as part of its celebrations it will be showcasing a selection of cars from its history at this years Goodwood Festival of Speed.
One of the stars of the show for McLaren will be the 12C GT Cam-Am edition, which was announced earlier this year.
The 12C GT Cam-Am, which will be taking part in the famous Goodwood Hill Climb, which is track-focused has a limited run of no more than 30 examples and is the most powerful 12C ever has increased engine performance of up to 630hp.
The limited edition model pays tribute to Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme who successfully raced a series of McLaren models in the Can-Am series, claiming a string of championships between them for Bruce McLaren Racing.
More photos, video and full press release after the jump
New Episodes of Awesome Formula 1 McLaren Cartoon series
McLaren Animation Tooned Series
There has never really been a good series of Motorsport based cartoons since the days of Speed Racer
But that has all changed with the team at McLaren teaming up with an animation studio to create their own series called “Tooned”
It featuring their own drivers Lewis Hamilton
and Jensen Button playing themselves
It is very clever idea by McLaren and it is very well done and has a very Pixar feel about it.
Each episode is very funny and very well scripted. It will be interesting to see how many episodes they do.
If you have seen the first episode then the latest ones are below.
If you haven’t seen any of them, then Episodes 1-3 are below to enjoy.
If you haven’t seen the two previous episodes check them out below
EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2
MCLAREN OPENS FIRST SHOWROOMS IN GERMANY
McLaren Press Release
McLaren will open its first showrooms in Germany today with McLaren Düsseldorf and McLaren Hamburg set to open their doors in time for the 2011 Formula 1™ German Grand Prix which will take place at the Nürburgring this coming weekend. A total of four dealers in Germany were selected by McLaren to offer the best in customer sales and service for a range of McLaren cars, beginning with the ground-breaking new MP4-12C high-performance sports car. Every showroom will exhibit a piece of history to highlight McLaren’s rich heritage with each McLaren showroom displaying a real McLaren race car, driven by some of the finest racing drivers in the world. Customers in Düsseldorf can look forward to MP4/5 which took Alain Prost to a world championship title in 1989, while Hamburg’s car enthusiasts will be impressed with MP4/6, the car in which Ayrton Senna won his third, and last championship title, in 1991. The remaining two dealers in Frankfurt and Munich will open in autumn this year
Jensen Button sets a Lap Record at Bathurst
Redbull’s Formula 1 team has been doing demonstration events with their F1 cars for a while all around the world from in the streets to in the snow to in the sand by the beach.
So when the word got out that McLaren was looking to be the first team to take a modern day F1 car around Bathurst, I knew we were in for treat.
So when time came a couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t wait for it to happen and for the footage and images to hit the web.
Below is a image from the day of Jensen in action on his way to recording the fastest even lap record of the circuit
Image (C) Formula1.com/Sutton Images
and join Jensen for a hot lap around Bathurst with this great on-board vision of his lap record run
Vodafone McLaren 3rd Driver Campaign
I had seen these Vodafone adverts on bill boards around Melbourne in the lead up to the GP all about the 3rd Driver Campaign.
But it wasn’t until I found the “viral” video series on YouTube that I could see what it was all about.
Vodafone have been very clever with going for this style of campaign and it has worked very well with the tie in with both the F1 Team and the V8 Supercar team and Bathurst.
Enough from me check out the video series below,
Enjoy !!!
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Looking forward to the next Episode, great work Vodafone
