What time are the McLaren F1 parade laps?

[moribund]

Anyone know?

[eastsider]

Saturday morning is the best I've found - anyone know more??

[LB14]

I've had a mooch around the internet but cant find the times, definitely don't want to miss this though. I believe there's 5 F1 GTR's being led around by a P1 GTR, together with customer 650S Le Mans editions

[moribund]

Will have to keep an eye open. I nearly missed the 787B demo a few years ago, don't want to repeat that!

[White-Noise]

Too right I dont want to miss this either. I expect its going to be marked in the programme itself? I saw some articles on it, but didnt see it even on the ACO site itself. On that note, it does look like a lot more is going on this year compared to normal

[vincegail]

Indeed! The 1990 pole position Nissan will do some laps as well!

[giger]

Just looking on the official programme and there is no mention of this

[GrahamG]

Not got detailed timetable as yet but Saturday morning looks like this:

- Club Lotus and Bentley Parade
- Warm Up
- Mc Laren lap
- Le Mans legend Race
- Aston Martin Festival
- Ford/Ferrari parade

That would put the Maccas on track no later than mid morning

Ref the Nissan polestar laps - Not currently planned on Saturday morning! Listen out to Midweek Motorsport on Radiolemans.com later for when you can see this car (and others!) on part of the track

[Riversides]

The McLaren parade lap is scheduled for 1200Hrs

[Crook]

Riversides said:

The McLaren parade lap is scheduled for 1200Hrs

And will probably feature customer 650s stubbing into each other at various points around the track...

[SimoN138]

DSC has the McLaren laps aftre the warm up and before the legends race ... which would be between 9.45 and 10.05 ... so perhaps the timetable is still a bit 'fluid'

DSC link here

[moribund]

Any advance on 12:00 for the laps? I think midday is more likely than early morning.

[moribund]

So when did these guys run in the end, and where was the paddock? Maison-Blance? Did you see them? Did they spank them? Not found any interesting YouTube footage yet.

Saw the historic race and the Astons from Arnage with a fresh croissant and coffee (awesome start to the day), but then drove back to camp ready to hit the circuit early afternoon. We looked around the Aston support paddock but didn't find either the historics or Mcclarens.

[Vette_1978]

Apparently these ran after the Aston race along with some Porsches. We missed them as we were moving from Mulsanne at the time once the Aston race was red flagged. I really wish they could be more specific with what is happening on track, even Radio Le Mans missed it. A few times I jumped up after hearing something coming only to find it was a collection of Q7's or a rogue ambulance. Oh well.

[moribund]

Me too. They're part of the event so why is it so hard for the ACO to publish a proper detailed timetable?

[Bobo W]

Went out just after midday - only 1 lap - a friend took his 650S and said they didn't exactly hang around

[Riversides]

I have to say, I was really looking forward to this. When the cars appeared just before the start finish straight, I was expecting to see them return after a lap...but that was it, a few seconds, never to be seen again. Not even any coverage of their lap on the big screen. Considering the significance of the F1 GTR success 20 years ago, the whole thing was a bit of a let down IMHO.
In contrast, the launch of the new Alpine was met with a fan fare and plenty of overly excited French commentary as it covered its lap.
If anyone is interested, Shmee150 has a video on his Youtube channel featuring the McLarens.

Here's hoping that the 25th anniversary is given the prominence it deserves.

[Oldwolf]

I was somewhat tee'd off that we weren't given warning, I only managed to snap one of my hero's, I must admit to swearing a little bit