And the significance of the turn-around in fortunes for the Honda team - who as recently as a month ago were unsure of their future in Formula 1 - was not lost on the 29-year-old.
Yet the cars' failings in qualifying have caused the youngest-ever Formula 1 champion to take a longer-term view on how McLaren should approach their planning from now on this season.
We've seen this before: Cars like the Ferrari 575M on our list have clutchless manual gearboxes, derived from Formula 1-style systems, that let you shift via paddles that frame the steering wheel (pull the left paddle for downshifts, the right for upshifts).
It led to those eight teams - under the umbrella of Fota - to threaten to quit Formula 1 and establish a rival series next season - a move that Mosley claims "is an attack on the FIA's right to regulate its Formula One world championship".
As in Formula 1, the 400-volt battery is charged by means of targeted recuperation during braking whilst the car is being driven.
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Students tended to think maths leads to teaching or accountancy, when it could mean a career in Formula 1 racing, code-breaking or journalism, a spokeswoman for the consortium said.
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"My marriage broke up because of Formula 1, " the 78-year-old told the Times newspaper.
Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell are among the drivers who have previously raced Renault-powered Lotus cars in Formula 1.
The 40-year-old last raced in Formula 1 in 2006, but he has been strongly linked with a return to the sport with the renamed Brawn GP team.
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To the relief of football clubs, swanky nightclubs and Formula 1, taking clients on company-sponsored jollies seems unlikely to cause any problems.
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The Woking-based team will appear before Formula 1's governing body on 29 April to answer charges relating to a breach of the International Sporting Code.
Formula 1 teams, a majority of them British-based, and international media have faced significant difficulties in returning from China after Sunday's grand prix in Shanghai.
Former Formula 1 motor racing world champion Sir Jackie Stewart - a friend of Mr Goodwin - said he thought the former bank boss had been made a scapegoat.
Jeep Grand Cherokees would be faster than Formula 1 cars and minivans could be made of 20-inch steel plate.
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Hamilton is also learning that his wonderful rollercoaster of Formula 1 is not just up, up, up - he has to ride out the downs as well.
The season starts in Bahrain on 13 March and Formula 1 teams are currently in the middle of their pre-season testing programme.
The three-time champion, revered as one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, died when he crashed his Williams in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
Formula 1 race cars are known for their cutting edge, technology-driven designs.
Its development has made use of advanced technology from the world of Formula 1: the battery is the first result of the co-operation between Mercedes-AMG GmbH in Affalterbach and Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (formerly Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines).
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"This role offers me the opportunity to rejoin the Formula 1 environment and drive again, which is naturally where my longer-term ambitions lie, " said Klien.
At the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2009, Lewis Hamilton achieved the first historic victory for a Formula 1 vehicle featuring KERS hybrid technology in the form of the Mercedes-Benz KER System.
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"The season will be long and hard, no doubt about that, but I love this fight -- it is because of this fight that I came back to Formula 1, " he added.
My first love is Formula 1 racing, and when I started watching Ayrton Senna in his McLaren-Honda in 1988, the team and Senna himself were sponsored by TAG Heuer.
The Jonathan Ross Show - which drew a peak audience of 4.6 million - saw the presenter interview Hollywood actress Sarah Jessica Parker, singer Adele and Formula 1's Lewis Hamilton.
The stadium was set to re-open as soon as next year, most likely hosting either European soccer of Formula 1 racing.
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And, in the wake of the super-injunctions rows earlier this year and the award of privacy damages to the former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley by the British and European courts, legislation on defamation, libel and privacy is also in the spotlight.
Spanish-owned Hispania announced on Friday they had signed Indian Narain Karthikeyan, who last raced in Formula 1 in 2005 for Jordan, as one of their 2011 drivers.
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Transforming the property into the ultra-luxe resort it is now was a Pharaonic undertaking, the sort of extreme effort (Formula 1 racing, parachute skiing) celebrated in the Red Bull magazine, Red Bulletin.
"Practice starts during the weekend had shown that the dirty side of the grid was so lacking in grip that a car would lose up to a second in the 350-meter run to Turn 1, equivalent to two positions, " James Allen, a Formula One commentator for the BBC and the editor of jamesallenonF1.com, wrote in an email.
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