Posted on: Jul 12, 2012 | 22,273 reads

McLaren Animates Button and Hamilton in New Cartoon

First episode of new cartoon series "Tooned" airs prior to British Grand Prix with more to come.

McLaren has teamed up with computer animation studio Framestore to release the first installment of a new animated short series starring its world-champion F1 drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.

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Entitled "Tooned", the series debuted on Sky Sports F1 prior to Sunday's British Grand Prix, with subsequent episodes planned for each of the season's remaining eleven races. Featuring a clean cut Button (looking strikingly like Flint Lockwood from "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"), a typically fiery Hamilton with trademark pencil beard, and Nigel Mansell's mustache circa 1995, McLaren has done a great job of showing the lighter side of F1. Now if we can just get a cartoon Nicole Scherzinger (Hamilton's girlfriend and Pussycat Dolls singer) in the next episode we'll be all set.