McLaren F1 car porn

[hurstg01]

MartinD said:

hurstg01 said:

Great pics!! How did you manage to sneak taking those in the Tech centre? I thought cameras were a strict no-no

They are , but there was a big press day there recently

[big dub]

hurstg01 said:

some more porn

That black one is

[hurstg01]

in that case...

[Strangely Brown]

Is that Gordon Murray's car or Nick Mason's?

[JeremyK]

Will you stop it now, please?

The missus is still up...

[Mutton]

Funk said:

flemke said:

Funk said:

Looks like Tiffany now you mention it. A much younger Tiffany..!

I'm thinking that it's a gentleman who's in show biz, and who owns a different F1 from the one in the image.

Ah, you're right. It's Captain Blackadder himself!

I remember the magazine article, either in EVO or CAR, where Rowan Atkinson compared the F1 to the Carrera GT. Strangely, they used a different car to his for the feature - probably because they wanted both cars to be silver. At the time he said that he thought the F1 was quicker than the GT around the track...

[flemke]

Strangely Brown said:

Is that Gordon Murray's car or Nick Mason's?

Neither, I'm afraid.

[Civpilot]

flemke said:

Strangely Brown said:

Is that Gordon Murray's car or Nick Mason's?

Neither, I'm afraid.

Mason's is the Red GTR road car earlier in the thread and Gordon (I beleive) actually owns one of the development cars (XP3?)

[hurstg01]

I believe I am right in stating the owner of the Black car is also the owner of the Gulf GTR racecar / roadcar. Lucky man

[Streetrod]

hurstg01 said:

I believe I am right in stating the owner of the Black car is also the owner of the Gulf GTR racecar / roadcar. Lucky man

I'm sorry but thats just plain greedy....... me! jealous! who said that?

[hurstg01]

[ilovevolvo]

hurstg01 said:

I have been there too ;-)but did not see them or her

Russ

[mc_blue]

I want to transport a McLaren F1!

[Huggybear010]

If you think owning two is greedy, there is a certain very rich man (or techincally his brother) that owns more then two!

XP1 is the car promised to Lewis (the papaya orange F1 LM at MTC) I am glad Ron Dennis doesnt read this forum, he would have has somebodys head for spelling Mclaren, Maclaren. Carrying on from earlier, I do love the engineering side of the bug, it is a truly amazing feat.

However its 'just parts put together' (very well done though) sadly to coin a phrase its soul less. The F1 is the most 'focused' car ever built. the king (konig) is nice, but not built very well (still love the door action) and fully agree the Zonda is the closet thing to the F1, they truly are gorgeous and well built.

Like the pic of XP5 with XP1 LM in the background (if you dont know XP5 is the car that set the speed record)

[hurstg01]

Huggybear010 said:

If you think owning two is greedy, there is a certain very rich man (or techincally his brother) that owns more then two!

Brunei? , PS - not as many, but Ralph Lauren owns 3 and Thomas Bscher owns 2 (GTR's).

Huggybear010 said:

XP1 is the car promised to Lewis (the papaya orange F1 LM at MTC)

Its actually called XP1LM. XP1 crashed in hot weather testing in Africa in the early days of the F1 development programme.

Huggybear010 said:

Like the pic of XP5 with XP1 LM in the background (if you dont know XP5 is the car that set the speed record)

Did you miss the GTR, #20R in the Gulf Colours in between them?

[flemke]

hurstg01 said:

Huggybear010 said:

If you think owning two is greedy, there is a certain very rich man (or techincally his brother) that owns more then two!

Brunei? , PS - not as many, but Ralph Lauren owns 3 and Thomas Bscher owns 2 (GTR's).

Factory owns a fair few too.

[riwiho]

If anyone has the money going spare then DK Engineering have one for sale right now:
http://www.dkeng.com/stock_list_detailed.php?l=1&a...

Is this the one that feature on the Enzo v F1 piece on 5th gear.

Mr Bridger?

[hurstg01]

flemke said:

Factory owns a fair few too.

at least 5 I know of, possibly 1 or 2 more?....

[flemke]

hurstg01 said:

flemke said:

Factory owns a fair few too.

at least 5 I know of, possibly 1 or 2 more?....

Possibly...

[RobboC]

Do tell! I know most F1 private owners would like to keep their identity a secret, but surely knowing how many McLaren have and what would be interesting and not intrusive to know?