
Andretti then bugged Brown for the next two years before finally mentioning it on air during the Miami Grand Prix, where Brown committed to getting the world champion and Indianapolis 500 winner his long-awaited time in a modern car. The MP4/28 scored points consistently for both Perez and Button, but the car never scored a podium in competition.īrown had initially offered Andretti a lap in the car two years ago, when Andretti sat in a modern F1 car at Goodwood and mentioned to Brown that he'd be interested in running laps in the car.

That's in contrast to the turbo V-6 regulations introduced in 2014, which greatly increased the total hybrid power available to compensate for the change in internal combustion engine design. The MP4/28 ran in the last year of V-8s in F1, so it is a mild hybrid with about 80 hp of assistance from a kinetic energy recovery system. Andretti's lap was in a McLaren MP4/28, the team's 2013 challenger that ran with the pairing of Jenson Button and Sergio Perez.
