While last year's Brawn was highly successful with the low nose to carry ballast, this year's reduction of front tyre width reduces this need to carry weight at the front of the car.Īs the nose went up, more space is available under it. Just as at Ferrari, the new McLaren was designed with a nose lifted up higher and wider than on the MP4/24. The 30-year old Briton faces his five year younger countrymen who was champion in 2008. The team is also once more allowed to have numbers 1 and 2 on the car as Jenson Button, the World Champion of 2009 joins the team as he decided to leave Brawn GP. The change was to be expected though as the team struggled badly with the MP4/24, mainly due to a bad weight distribution.

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