McLaren Testing MP4-1???

[ljakse]

On f1-live.com in the time sheets for testing in Barcelona it is stated that McLaren is testing MP4-17???
I can't find any confirmation on this.
Does anybody know anything about this?

[Kicking-back]

It's a mistake.

[Marbot]

Yes the MP4-17 is definitely a mistake.

[Knowlesy]

As long as it isn't MP4-1 as the title suggests!

[esorniloc]

There never was an MP4/1.

MP4 - 81 car
MP4B - 82 car
MP4/1C - 83 car (Cosworth)
MP4/1E - 83 Car (Tag)

[Knowlesy]

I always thought MP4 was basically the MP4-1?

[esorniloc]

Originally posted by knowlesy
I always thought MP4 was basically the MP4-1?

It was never called that in 1981 or 1982.

[Knowlesy]

Yeah I know that, but that is basically what it is!

The first MP4.

Forget the name.......yeah, OK I'm wrong, I'll go quietly.

[Mr V]

Originally posted by esorniloc
There never was an MP4/1.

MP4/1C - 83 car (Cosworth)
MP4/1E - 83 Car (Tag)

Aren't you contradicting yourself here Esor?

[Paarma]

I'm not sure, but I was under the impression that the tyre companies sometimes test with older F1 cars? Maybe not MP4/1 but with two or three year old models?

[429CJ]

This years car, if I remember right, is MP4-20.
Not MP5 or MP9. though

[esorniloc]

Originally posted by Mr V
Aren't you contradicting yourself here Esor?

NO!

There never was an MP4/1 (with no letter after it).

MP4/1C raced with a Cosworth engine in 83.
MP4/1E raced later in 83 with a Tag engine. I guess there was a MP4/1D (maybe first test car with Tag engine?).

[Teretonga]

MP4 was the car introduced in 81 and raced in 82.
The MP4/1C was the evolution raced in 83. Obviously at that point Ron D. decided there had to be a change in the designation/nomenclature at that point hence the MP4/1C designation. The designation 1C was probably on the basis that the 82 car would have been MP4/1B had that nomenclature been in place.