![]() ![]() The people: key McLaren and team personnel provide first-hand recollections, followed by views of the men who raced F1 GTRs successfully, from Le Mans achievers Yannick Dalmas and Derek Bell to multiple winners Ray Bellm, Thomas Bscher, John Nielsen, Andy Wallace, James Weaver, JJ Lehto and Steve Soper. ![]() Car histories: all 28 F1 GTRs receive detailed resumés of their lifetimes, complete with period and modern photographs showing them in their myriad guises, often with various changes of colour and livery over the years, plus conversions to road use.Twilight years in Japan: two F1 GTRs soldiered on in Japan from 1999 to 2005, achieving one more victory, at Miné in 2001.Racing in 1998: Steve O’Rourke’s privateer F1 GTR Long Tail achieved a remarkable fourth overall at Le Mans, but by now the FIA GT Championship had become a Mercedes benefit and the two participating McLarens were outclassed.Racing in 1997: the F1 GTR evolved into Long Tail form and a BMW-funded team arrived to join the action, taking all five McLaren victories in the new FIA GT Championship, although the Schnitzer-run team’s quickest drivers, JJ Lehto and Steve Soper, narrowly missed out on the title.Racing in 1996: a second all-conquering BPR season delivered the championship title to Ray Bellm in his Gulf-sponsored car, partnered by James Weaver, while a campaign in Japan’s national championship saw John Nielsen and David Brabham crowned champions.Racing in 1995: besides the celebrated McLaren victory at Le Mans, F1 GTRs dominated the BPR Global GT Endurance Series, winning 10 of its 12 rounds, with John Nielsen and Thomas Bscher narrowly emerging as champions in Bscher’s West-sponsored car.Design and development of the F1 GTR, including thoughts from Gordon Murray, the car’s designer and also writer of this book’s foreword.This sumptuous book outlines the life of the McLaren F1 GTR in exhaustive depth, with Volume 1 devoted to race-by-race narrative and Volume 2 to individual car histories and the stories of the people who raced them, all supported by over 775 colour photographs. 6 7 Production ended in early December 2015. Debuted at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, 5 sales of the P1 began in the United Kingdom in October 2013 and all 375 units were sold out by November. With 28 examples built over three seasons, the F1 GTR was fabulously successful, winning 41 of its 131 races and taking two international championship titles. The McLaren P1 is a limited-production mid-engine plug-in hybrid sports car produced by British automobile manufacturer McLaren Automotive. The car is built on McLaren’s MonoCage III carbon-fiber monocoque platform and carries a dry weight of 2,619 pounds, a 22-lb reduction over the road-going Senna. Derived from the BMW V12-powered three-seat McLaren F1 road car, the F1 GTR only came into existence because of customer pressure on designer Gordon Murray to produce a racing version. The track-only Senna GTR debuted in 2018, at which time it was claimed by McLaren to be their fastest non-Formula 1 car to date. The GTR can call on an equivalent level of downforce to the regular Senna at 15 percent lower speed, while still having less drag.Twenty-five years on from its famous début victory in the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours, the wonderful McLaren F1 GTR is the subject of this major two-volume history. McLaren claims peak downforce is 2205 pounds, up from the 1763 pounds made by the streetable car in its most aggressive Race mode. The vast active rear wing has been pushed further backward-the road use requirement for it to sit inside the car's footprint has been removed-for cleaner airflow and increased leverage on the back of the car. With revised wingwork including new “dive planes” on the car's front corners and vortex generators designed to create stable airflow below its flat underside, the GTR produces substantially more aero grip than even the regular Senna. Why own a car like this if you can't frighten your buddies in it? It still has air conditioning plus a full suite of driver aids, a pit lane speed control system, and even anti-collision radar. Adding the passenger's seat is a no-cost option that we anticipate pretty much every owner will take. But it has lost the road car's airbags and infotainment system, and only a driver's seat will come as standard. Bodywork has grown to cover a front track that sits 3.0 inches wider and a rear one that has grown by 2.7 inches, and the car has gained pneumatic air jacks, a plumbed-in fire extinguisher and an onboard camera system. Available only to P1 owners, production of the. McLaren claims a lightest possible dry weight of 2619 pounds, giving the GTR the brawniest power-to-weight ratio of any McLaren Automotive road or track car. Without road-car regulations to hold it back, the P1 GTR pushes everything to the limit. ![]()
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