German car-maker BMW has unveiled its F1-08, hoping to achieve its first grand prix victory this season.

BMW driver Nick Heidfeld took the new vehicle for a drive inside the vast BMW Welt building in Munich, but the real race testing is still to come.

‘There isn’t a lot to tell you. It wasn’t a real test drive,’ he said after he took the F1-08 for a spin.

BMW Sauber ended 2007 as runners-up behind Ferrari, but only because McLaren was stripped of all its constructors’ points after a spying controversy.

But Ferrari and McLaren won every race between them during the 2007 season, something BMW hopes to change this year.