MINICHAMPS - McLAREN - F1 MP4/12 N 10 SEASON 1997 D.COULTHARD

The McLaren MP4 / 12 for the 1997 season could count on a completely revised and corrected Mercedes engine. Conceptually, the car retained the characteristics of the previous McLarens, but everything had been optimized and improved. And indeed the Woking team showed remarkable progress, with a season in which they began to regain the positions they had lost after 1993. McLaren finished in fourth place in the constructors' championship, 4 points behind Benetton; Coulthard won in Australia and Italy, while Hakkinen won the last GP of the season, at Jerez de la Frontera, which went down in history due to the collision between Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve. McLaren's results in 1997 already heralded the remarkable level the team would reach in the following seasons.