McLaren MP4-24

The McLaren MP4-24 is a Formula One car built by for the 2009 Formula One season. The car was unveiled at the team's Woking headquarters on 16 January 2009, and was driven to 3rd in the Constructors' World Championship by defending World Champion Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen. Of the seventeen races that season, the MP4-24 won two, both in the hands of Hamilton. Comparatively, won 8, 5 and 1.
In testing, the car was proven to be slower compared to its rivals. In the first half, McLaren scored only a total of 13 points, with Hamilton scoring 9 and Kovalainen 4. But at the second half of the season, the car started to gain major improvement, and McLaren ended up finishing the season in third place with 71 points.
It was succeeded in 2010 by the MP4-25.
==Race Victories==
Year	Event	Driver
 	 	Lewis Hamilton
 	 	Lewis Hamilton
==Complete Formula One Results==
Year	Driver 	Tyre	1	2 	3	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10	11	12	13 	14	15 	16 	17
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Hamilton 	 	 	Race stopped after 31 of 56 laps. Half points awarded.	 	 	9th	12th	13th	16th	18th	 	 	 	12th	 	 	 	
 	Kovalainen	 	 	 	 	12th	 	 	14th	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	11th	12th	11th
== Statistics on the KERS system ==
* McLaren became the first team to win an GP using a KERS equipped car when Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix.
* European Grand Prix Hamilton became the first driver to take pole position with a KERS car, his teammate, Kovalainen qualifying second. This was also the first instance of an all KERS front row.
* McLaren used KERS system in all other races except British Grand Prix.
==Notes==
 
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