I love that the McLaren F1 became so iconic that the individual production numbers are becoming common knowledge; we're at a point where they've gone from privately-known details, to being tracked on obscure webpages, to now showing up in YT video titles.
One of my personal highligths from Goodwood FOS. To see the 1995 Le Mans winning car was... I can't even find words to describe it. And that sound... Sadly, I also saw the LARK car having a slight crash, but no major damage. Thanks again for a video Bozzy, all the best :D
Hello!🔥 McLaren F1 Power!!! With the fabulous V12 BMW!!! Perfect wedding. Many thanks for those Marvelous Symphonies. Have a great continuation, and see you. 😉👍👍👍👌
I still think this is a pinnacle car - there may be faster cars in straight lines & corners but for a combination of performance, ambience & sheer soul I don't think this wil be beaten. The whole era was just one of those high points. The road car looks slightly quaint these days ( mostly the lights I think ), but styling-wise so much of what's come after is just tacky. Maybe the Zonda can come close.
The McLaren F1 GTR proved that a Japanese driver could win at Le Mans, and at the same time, it gave a sense of urgency to GT racing in Japan, saying, "If we continue to use production tuned cars, we will eventually fall behind. Masanori Sekiya, who won Le Mans in the No. 59 car, later trained Le Mans winners such as Kazuki Nakajima and Kamui Kobayashi at Toyota's driver training school, FTRS (currently TGR-DC). The three major GT500 works of Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, feeling threatened by the strength of the McLaren F1 GTR, aggressively promoted GT machine development, which has now developed into the world's fastest GT car racing series called SUPER GT. For the Japanese motorsports world today, it would be impossible to talk about history without mentioning the McLaren F1 GTR.
