McLaren Mercedes' new driver line-up for the 2008 season, Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen, will make their race debut as teammates in Australia next weekend. After a troubled 2007 season, the team is keen to get back to racing and team boss Martin Whitmarsh believes they are where they want to be in terms of performance.
"The team has completed, and in fact exceeded, our planned pre-season development plan with the MP4-23," Whitmarsh said. "The car is over 90% new from the car that finished the Brazilian Grand Prix and is the result of over 1000 people in Woking, Brixworth and Stuttgart working intensely to get it to the grid in Melbourne."
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