McLaren F1

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there's this in in my extensive um conspiracy theories because i had to write a column for ev before he came around and killed me um there is this weird fia gt1 category floating around that's been suggested and originally it was sort of suggested it wouldn't be a weck type class but it might be a FIA sanctioned time attack type thing for hypercars like more closely related road going hypercars and I think they spoke to Pagani and Koenigsegg and a few other people but I know GMA up there and the talk was the homologation requirement was 75 cars and I think GMA up the production of the S I'll lose track of what they've done the one that looks like the McLaren F1 but the road version rather than the They were going to do 64 of those and they then sent letters to prospects saying it was going to go up to 75 and they explicitly mentioned they wanted to remain eligible.

Firm obligation stuff.

So I wonder if Porsche could easily do a straight replacement for Mission X if it wasn't electric.

great yeah uh suspension um yeah lowering it all this sort of stuff but um uh that again this is why i'd like to go into a long sort of thing about all these but then you know there's there's ones um for different parts of the world there's an m3r in australia uh i don't know how many of those they built but that was let's 322 horsepower um most powerful production e36 m3

was that car and importantly i think it's worth acknowledging that the uh the first three liter e36 m3 engine um they actually uh welded a second one together with a shared shared crankshaft and put it into a car that no one's ever heard of called mclaren f1 okay So the McLaren F1 was basically, they won't say it so directly, but basically, fundamentally, I'm being really simplistic.

Apologies, Mr. Murray, but the concept was effectively two 3HM3 engines with the same crank.

And then Germany gets a GTR version of the car.

it was a book that just arrived from Porter Press, which is a well-known publisher of quite premium motoring books.

And this one was called something like, I've got to remember, but it's the book of the McLaren F1.

And I thought, good God, here we are in

you know,

decades after it was all over and yet forward by Gordon Murray and so on.

I thought it was just a reheat of the history, but it turns out to be a little potted history and an illustration of every single McLaren F1 ever built, 160 odd of them, whatever it is.

And, you know, a lovely illustrations, profile illustration of each one.

with a potted history and an opportunity to buy a much bigger version of any one of these illustrations.

Why did you buy this? Like, was this your poster dream car forever? And if so, why?

McLaren F1 and then the GT40.

McLaren F1 is well out of my fucking price range.

Yeah, how convenient that one of those is 1% of the cost of the other one.

That's insane.

Even if it's still really expensive.

That's, you know.

And I've wanted, I mean, since Need for Speed 2, it was like 1997, for the original PlayStation, that McLaren F1 was one of the cars in that game, and I remember watching that video.