McLaren
(1966 - today)
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As much ambition as Ford invested in its Le Mans commitment, there was little interest in the new Can-Am series at the end of the sixties. Consequently, it was left to the private racing teams to develop a winning shell for the Ford engines. The result was four years of failure. This article tells the story of Can-Am racing cars with Ford engines, which was marked by setbacks, and shows a lot of historical footage.
2013 marked the 50th anniversary of Bruce McLaren's racing debut in his own design. Since then, McLaren F1 racing cars have taken part in 742 Grand Prix races and won 182 of them. No team other than Ferrari has been more successful. This report looks back on the fifty-year history of McLaren, shows and describes exemplary racing cars in detail, illustrated with over 80 photos.
Two additional drive wheels were expected to provide more traction, higher usable engine power and therefore faster cars in the 1969 season. In addition to Lotus, three other manufacturers also tried out the unusual new technology. However, they quickly realized that the higher weight and tendency to understeer outweighed any hoped-for advantages. Episode 25 of the series "Technology in racing cars from 1958 to 1978" tells the story of the failure of four-wheel drive in Formula 1.
The CanAm sports car championship is legendary. For just nine years, this racing series showed how technology develops when there are hardly any regulatory restrictions. Engine power increased from 500 to 1200+ hp, and the aerodynamics would theoretically have allowed the sports cars to drive on the ceiling in tunnels. McLaren won the series five times, in 1970 with the M8D, in which company boss Bruce McLaren died during test drives. This report tells the story of a special racing series and the winning car from 1970, illustrated with current and historical images.
While Chaparral went from one revolution to the next, McLaren opted for measured innovation and an evolutionary development strategy for its Can-AM racing cars. Success proved McLaren right: no one won more often in those years. The M8F was a genuine series winner. This article explains the technology of the McLaren M8F and shows it in many pictures.
McLaren was the first team to start with a carbon fiber chassis in 1981. The "black magic" had several advantages over other materials. Not only did the driving and aerodynamics benefit from the new material, but driver safety also improved significantly thanks to the new material.
When the McLaren F1 was first presented in 1992, it was considered the best and fastest production sports car. It was also the most expensive, with a price tag of almost one million USD. A maximum of 300 were to be built, but McLaren was unable to sell more than 106. As a result, they are rare today and expensive to buy. To mark the 25th anniversary of the McLaren F1, this report looks back two and a half decades and tries to find out what made the mid-engined sports car so special.
The three-seater McLaren F1 mid-engine sports car was not actually intended as a racing car. But in 1995, private teams competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with optimized road sports cars and surprisingly won. Now BMW had also tasted blood and race-optimized F1 GTRs were developed. Although they lagged somewhat behind the great success, they are among the most beautiful racing cars of all time. This report is about the GTR version of the McLaren F1 and shows it in many historic pictures.
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