McLaren last went a year without a victory when Mika Hakkinen and Scot David Coulthard were driving for the team in 1996.
McLaren drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button stepped onto the Formula One podium for the first time this season on Saturday -- but only in jest after yet another qualifying nightmare in Brazil.
McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale insists that the team will not impose team orders on their drivers -- Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton -- during the latter part of the Formula One season.
Rediff's Formula One fanatics in a chat after the Melbourne Grand Prix.
Ferrari have accused former technical manager Nigel Stepney of passing secrets to Formula One rivals.
Media reports suggested the McLaren driver, whose wife is Japanese, was likely to announce at this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix that he would be leaving Formula One at the end of the year.
Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton put McLaren on pole position for engine partners Mercedes' home German Grand Prix/
British mobile operator Vodafone will end its seven-year title sponsorship of Formula One team McLaren at the end of 2013, the team said on Thursday.
Formula One's governing body has charged championship leaders McLaren with unauthorised possession of confidential Ferrari information.
It was the first time Verstappen, winner of a record 19 of 22 races last year, has won the first two races of a season. He has also won 19 of the last 20.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis shrugged off a frustrating Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday and said the team's pace could not be fairly evaluated until after the fourth race of the season. McLaren started the year on a high note, Lewis Hamilton winning the opening race in Melbourne with team mate Heikki Kovalainen in fifth, but the pair could not match the Ferraris at Sepang after being penalised five places in qualifying.
McLaren suspended their chief designer Mike Coughlan in July after 780 pages of Ferrari technical information was found at his home.
Last year's inaugural Indian Formula One Grand Prix taught McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh an important driving lesson: Steer clear of the country's public roads as much as possible.
McLaren were stripped all of their points in the 2007 Formula One constructors championship and fined $100 million in the spying case.
The car has endured a troublesome birth with two crashes since its test debut in France.
The Formula One world champion sees McLaren as a potential threat to Ferrari's domination this season after David Coulthard's impressive times in recent testing.
McLaren can deny Red Bull's Formula One leader Sebastian Vettel a fourth straight win, Jenson Button said at the Indian Grand Prix on Thursday.
Nobody at McLaren knew before July 3 that one of the team's employees had confidential Ferrari information in his possession, the Formula One championship leaders said on Monday.
'It is clear that McLaren's actions during the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix were entirely legitimate and no further action is necessary,' the FIA said on its web site.
Statistical highlights of a Group B ODI match of the ICC Champions Trophy between Pakistan and South Africa in Birmingham on Monday night.
"To say it was a difficult weekend for the team would be somewhat of an understatement," McLaren boss Ron Dennis said.
Mexican Sergio Perez will replace Lewis Hamilton at McLaren next season, the Formula One team said on Friday.
The money represents a fine handed to McLaren in September as a result of a spying controversy. The FIA had imposed on McLaren a $100 million fine and the loss of their 2007 constructors' points.
World champion Lewis Hamilton's new McLaren is too slow and it could be some time before it can win races, the Formula One team said on Friday in a frank acknowledgment of their pre-season problems.
Fernando Alonso believes his McLaren team could have the best chassis in Formula One before long this year but the Spaniard also sees no end to champions Mercedes' domination after pounding out the laps in testing.
McLaren will start the Formula One season without a title sponsor but still expect to have one this year, group chief executive Ron Dennis said.
McLaren hope the MP4-18, will help them challenge the supremacy of world champion Michael Schumacher's Ferrari team next season.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz won the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday in a triumphant return two weeks after appendicitis surgery as Red Bull's World champion Max Verstappen suffered his first retirement in two years.
Martin Whitmarsh took over from Ron Dennis as McLaren team principal on Sunday with the immediate task of helping Lewis Hamilton become the first British driver to retain the Formula One title. Dennis announced at the launch of the new McLaren MP4-24 car in January that he would stand down as principal on March 1 after 28 years in the role.
McLaren accepted that Ferrari data had penetrated deeper into their team than suspected and issued a public apology.
Brazilian Grand Prix stewards cleared BMW's Sauber's Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld and Williams' Nico Rosberg of alleged fuel irregularities.
Triple world champion Jackie Stewart defended McLaren on Tuesday after Formula One's governing body opened an investigation into the team's Monaco Grand Prix victory.
McLaren have written to Formula One's governing body to apologise for misleading stewards and accepting wrongdoing ahead of a hearing next week that could suspend the team from the championship. A source, who declined to be identified, said earlier that Whitmarsh had written to Mosley, the FIA and race officials to offer "an unreserved apology" for lying to stewards at last month's season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
McLaren set their sights on celebrating their 700th Formula One race with a win after Lewis Hamilton led a one-two with Jenson Button in a wet Korean Grand Prix practice on Friday.
Spain's double World champion Fernando Alonso and Britain's Jenson Button will drive for McLaren next season, the Formula One team announced on Thursday.
Formula One runner-up Lewis Hamilton gave McLaren's 2008 car his seal of approval after trying it out for the first time in Spain on Thursday.
