Car · McLaren · 2008

McLaren MP4-23

Seasons
2008
Entries
36
Wins
6
Poles
8
Fastest laps
3

Specification

Chassis
Moulded carbon fibre/aluminium honeycomb composite incorporating front and side impact structures
Front suspension
Adjustable double wish-bone arrangement
Rear suspension
Adjustable double wish-bone arrangement
Brakes
—
Gearbox
McLaren
Gears
7-speed + 1 reverse
Tyres
Bridgestone Potenza; Enkei Wheels Front & Rear
Fuel
Mobil Synergy Unleaded (5.75% bio fuel)
Engine
Mercedes-Benz FO 108V
Configuration
V8
Capacity
—
Aspiration
naturally aspirated
Power
810 bhp
Power note
810 hp @ 19,000 RPM (Limited)
Weight
—
Wheelbase
3,100 mm
Track, front
—
Track, rear
—

A blank is a figure nobody published for this car. Where several teams quote the same number in a season it is usually the rule they were all built to rather than a measurement, so it is kept with the regulation limits instead of here.

Every entry 36 entries

Every entry
SeasonGrand PrixDriverGridResultOut
2008Brazilian Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton45Finished
2008Brazilian Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen57Finished
2008Chinese Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton11Finished
2008Chinese Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen5DNFPneumatics
2008Japanese Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton112Finished
2008Japanese Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen3DNFEngine
2008Singapore Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton23Finished
2008Singapore Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen510Finished
2008Italian Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen22Finished
2008Italian Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton157Finished
2008Belgian Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton13Finished
2008Belgian Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen310Gearbox
2008European Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton22Finished
2008European Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen54Finished
2008Hungarian Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen21Finished
2008Hungarian Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton15Finished
2008German Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton11Finished
2008German Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen35Finished
2008British Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton41Finished
2008British Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen15Finished
2008French Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen104Finished
2008French Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton1310Finished
2008Canadian Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton1DNFCollision
2008Canadian Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen79Finished
2008Monaco Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton31Finished
2008Monaco Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen48Finished
2008Turkish Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton32Finished
2008Turkish Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen212Finished
2008Spanish Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton53Finished
2008Spanish Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen6DNFWheel rim
2008Bahrain Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen55Finished
2008Bahrain Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton313Finished
2008Malaysian Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen83Finished
2008Malaysian Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton95Finished
2008Australian Grand PrixSir Lewis Hamilton11Finished
2008Australian Grand PrixHeikki Kovalainen35Finished
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Photographs

From Wikimedia Commons, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require.

McLaren MP4-23
Lewis Hamilton 2008 China · Tim Wang from Beijing, China · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

Where this comes from

Constructor
McLaren
Predecessor
MP4-22
Successor
MP4-24
Races (published)
18
Wins (published)
6
Poles (published)
8
Confidence
reference
Specification source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_MP4-23
Register source
https://github.com/f1db/f1db