- McLaren M28
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John Watson's M28 now housed at the Donington Grand Prix Collection.
The McLaren M28 is a Formula One racing car built and run by McLaren in the 1979 Formula One World Championship. Powered by a conventional Ford Cosworth 3-litre engine, its ground effect design proved not particularly effective, and McLaren were never in the running for the championship with the car. Nevertheless, it earned points and came third in the Argentine Grand Prix, 6th in the Belgian GP and 4th at Monaco. Its drivers were Patrick Tambay and John Watson.
The M28 also raced in the colours of German beer company "Löwenbräu" at the 1979 US Grand Prix West.
McLarenFounder: Bruce McLaren
McLaren Group: Ron Dennis (15%) | TAG Group (15%) | Mumtalakat (30%) | Daimler AG (11%)
Current personnel: Martin Whitmarsh | Paddy Lowe | Neil Oatley
Former personnel: John Barnard | Gordon Coppuck | Pat Fry | Norbert Haug | Robin Herd | Neil Martin | Teddy Mayer | Gordon Murray | Adrian Newey | Steve Nichols | Jo Ramirez | Nicholas Tombazis
Race drivers: 3. Lewis Hamilton | 4. Jenson ButtonTest drivers:
Gary Paffett | 
Pedro de la Rosa
World Champions:
Emerson Fittipaldi | Lewis Hamilton | James Hunt | 
Mika Häkkinen | 
Niki Lauda | 
Alain Prost | Ayrton Senna
Cars
Formula One: M2B | M4B | M5A | M7A | M7B | M7C | M7D | M9A | M14A | M14D | M19A | M19C | M23 | M26 | M28 | M29 | M29F | M30 | MP4 (MP4/1) | MP4B (MP4/1B) | MP4/1C | MP4/1E | MP4/2 | MP4/2B | MP4/2C | MP4/3 | MP4/4 | MP4/5 | MP4/5B | MP4/6 | MP4/6B | MP4/7A | MP4/8 | MP4/9 | MP4/10 | MP4/10B | MP4/10C | MP4/11 | MP4/11B | MP4/12 | MP4/13 | MP4/14 | MP4/15 | MP4-16 | MP4-17 | MP4-17D | MP4-18 | MP4-19 | MP4-19B | MP4-20 | MP4-21 | MP4-22 | MP4-23 | MP4-24 | MP4-25 | MP4-26
Formula Two: M4A | M21
Sports cars: Zerex Special | M1A | M1B | M1C | M6A | M6B | M6GT | M8A | M8B | M8C | M8D | M8E | M8F | M8FP | M12 | M20 | F1 GTR
USAC/IndyCar: M15 | M16A | M16B | M16C | M16C/D | M16E | M24
F5000/Libre: M3 | M10A | M10B | M18 | M22 | M25
Development cars: M2A
Road cars: F1 | F1 LM | SLR (for Mercedes-Benz) | MP4-12C | 799
Engines: M838TCars that competed in the 1979 Formula One season Ferrari 312T3/312T4/312T4B • Williams FW06 • Williams FW07 • Ligier JS11 • Lotus 79 • Lotus 80 • Tyrrell 009 • Renault RS01 • Renault RS10 • McLaren M26 • McLaren M28/M28B/M28C • McLaren M29 • Brabham BT46 • Brabham BT48 • Brabham BT49 • Arrows A1B • Arrows A2 • Shadow DN9 • ATS D2 • ATS D3 • Fittipaldi F5A • Fittipaldi F6/F6A • Alfa Romeo 177 • Alfa Romeo 179 • Kauhsen WK • Wolf WR7-9 • Ensign N177 • Ensign N179 • Rebaque HR100 • Merzario A1B • Merzario A2Categories:- 1979 Formula One season cars
- McLaren Formula One cars
- Formula One stubs
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