First Light - The story behind the McLaren MP4/1 

+Andrés Manríquez I'm a MechE myself and I totally agree!

You call that blizzard? That's normal light snow.

I was thinking "door open in the snow...Hmm he must be a cool guy"

chris obim Ron Dennis was very keen about developing graphite and use it for F1. Ron is now out of McLaren, but I think research in it will continue.

Well, next year is gonna be the charm for them! (Fingers crossed)

Lotus type 86 had an alluminium chassis from the type 81. Lotus 88 with a carbon fibre chassis debuted together with a MP4/1 at Long Beach GP 1981 in a practice..

Well, Barnard sayed here it was HIS idea, which I doubt. If someons would've had a genius idea 1st back then in F1, it wouldn't have been anyone but Chapman. However, I believe Barnard is also a top engineer, but 2 steps behind Colin and Murray. In the US they had Jim Hall. Actually, the latter was far ahead of everyone in the world. If he had raced in F1, he'd have been the top engineer together with, or even ahead of, Chapman

Lotus was the first to do the carbon fibre monocoque, they used Kevlar as well for more strength. Lotus had their car on track 2 weeks before McLaren and they made it in house.

MP4/1 debuted at Argentina GP first April 12, 1981 BEFORE Lotus ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-68ENI8N8nO8.html

@@nathancollins4304 No one in F1 gives anyone else credit. The FW07 was a close copy of the lotus 79, but you won’t hear anyone at Williams admit that. Lotus definitely used composites before anyone else.

+bradfocl Thats the cool thing about this car. Its out of carbon, but the rest is primitive (standard).

A bit late, but that's what you get when you replace Ron Dennis with Zak Brown.

@@dimitarvenedikov changing next year

I think that the whole hybrid technology, Kers, ers, and drs are pretty cool.

+thericher The hybrid technology is a major revolution. More powerful engines using half the fuel, the advances in efficiency are ground breaking

+TooTurbo It's not really the same thing though. The new engines and recovery systems were a rule change all teams had to do, and I assume have common parts. This was McLaren going out there with their own thing, pushing the limits.

Well, blown diffuser? Sadly they banned that

There's just to many restrictions for teams to revolutionise Formula 1

www.formula1.com/en/championship/inside-f1/safety/history-of-F1-safety/1970s_and_1980s.html

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UPZ_eU8rHWU.html

It wasn't too crazy given that one of the drivers was ANDREA DE CESARIS

Flewn true another 4 years to go before the penny dropped with FIA folliwing Lafitte crash at Brands Hatch

I don't think he is stupid enough to chose to live and throw his money in France rather than to save it in Switzerland ;)

+Stuart Hamilton It kills him(and every other Brit) to give credit to USA or Americans who invented and pioneered all this tech so John stop patting yourself on the back....credit belongs to Ron Dennis...

+Donal Callum Erm it doesn't kill me and I'm British. It's really interesting to find out about it. Sounds to me that the US had the balls to say yes to the request from the team. For that they deserve credit. I think this chap deserves credit for making the necessary calculations to prove the idea.

+Donal Callum I don't know what you mean, Carbon Fibre is a British invention. Are you trying to suggest that Carbon Fibre is an American invention because if you are, you're wrong!

+GoogleEqualsEvil how interesting, next you'll be telling everyone that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, which we all know he didnt!

+Julian Neale Your arrogant, xenophobic, and frankly, idiotic response, perfectly illustrates how correct the 1st and 2nd sentences of the 2nd paragraph in my previous comment truly are. The documented, verifiable historical record is available, and proves what I said is accurate. The very short version is: the USA invented Graphite / Carbon Fiber in the second half of the 1950's. They continued to work on the technology, but by the first half of the 1960's, the UK had made significant advancements that contributed greatly to the technology. By the second half of the 1960's, Japan had overtaken the UK's advantage, but by 1970, the USA came full circle, and again led the way. So much so, that the leading Japanese research company involved in Graphite / Carbon Fiber technology at the time (Toray Industries), signed a joint technology agreement with the original company that invented Graphite / Carbon Fiber, the USA company, Union Carbide. www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/carbonfibers.html Regarding the Light Bulb; every rational, sane person with the ability to do basic historical research knows that Thomas Edison absolutely, irrefutably invented the first practical, commercially viable, "Light Bulb". Only a complete imbecile, or someone hyper xenophobic / ultra arrogant (arrogance is the OPPOSITE of confidence...arrogance is born and bred from insecurity), or someone with an agenda, would dispute that. Of course, only someone of the same kind of mindset would deny that many other inventors, including other Americans (like Charles Brush, who invented carbon arc lighting systems that were used throughout the USA and Europe as street lights and commercial lights in the late 1800's) had advanced the fundamental technology that set the stage for Edison's breakthrough during the previous 75 years. Those inventors from numerous countries including the USA, Italy, the UK, Canada, etc are recognized and credited for advancing that fundamental technology, as they should be. That doesn't change the historical FACT that all of them ultimately failed to invent a viable "Light Bulb", where Edison succeeded. He and his team spent over two years testing 9,000 different materials to finally arrive at a viable solution for a filament that was cost effective to produce, and that would last long enough to be marketable. Give credit where credit is due.

Greiguci Wootchie I don’t think a any early 80’s F1 car with ground effect could ever be described as lacking downforce. Remember they were going around corners so fast that they had to ban ground effects after 1982. Mainly because suspension technology wasn’t developed enough to ensure a stable ride height and therefore grips levels due to body roll and pitch

The underbody created huge amounts of downforce using “ground effect “. Regulations today mean the cars have to have flat undersides which negates ground effect.

+Patrick Lemire That is retarded at best...

+Marko Lomovic he's right though

The ANT I agreed with him by saying that.

However, all the pic here were taken in events and location where the Marlboro name was not displayed anyway

Cigarette companies have been lying to us for decades, so they can fuck off.

McLaren did the tooling which dictated shape..Hercules did the carbon fibre part of the process.

lord such I didn't say they designed the chassis. I said they manufactured the chassis.

lol

CCCP Carbon Composite Cars for Performance. Comrade.

They did but only once in an MP4/4 vid or something lol it's rare

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Yes?

How else would it be pronounced ? I thought that was the correct pronunciation . Yes ? No ?