Mclaren - How things change...

[Great Dane]

and they still 'only' race two cars...

[NotNormal]

.....+support for 12 MP4-12C GT3 entries



Great first pic though

[RB Will]

Are the road cars built there too?

[PhillT]

RB Will said:

Are the road cars built there too?

Road cars are built in another building constructed since the overhead pic was taken. It's connected to the MTC by a tunnel. Very cool.
MTC is also home to McLaren Applied Technologies, which builds all sort of clever non-motorsport stuff using the expertise gleaned from F1, such as a carbon fibre mountain bike and Amy Williams's skeleton bob.

[Eric Mc]

But I do think something was lost along the way.

[Rugbyman]

Yeah mini vans ........

[RedSpike66]

Eric Mc said:

But I do think something was lost along the way.

Character perhaps ??

[Eric Mc]

RedSpike66 said:

Eric Mc said:

But I do think something was lost along the way.

Character perhaps ??

That - and a certain amount of fun.

[chevronb37]

Eric Mc said:

RedSpike66 said:

Eric Mc said:

But I do think something was lost along the way.

Character perhaps ??

That - and a certain amount of fun.

And £100 million to Max Mosley.

[ritmo]

Great Dane said:

and they still 'only' race two cars...

assuming that is taken in the late 60s they were successfully racing more cars (F1 + CanAm) back then

[woof]

so where were they based in the 60's ?
( where's the pic taken ) ?

[Eric Mc]

Near Heathrow (Colnbrook - I think).

McLaren often fielded more than two cars in a GP (as did other teams back then).

[DJRC]

Eric Mc said:

RedSpike66 said:

Eric Mc said:

But I do think something was lost along the way.

Character perhaps ??

That - and a certain amount of fun.

The fun died when Bruce died. Denny changed that day aswell.

As for Ron, well there are 2 schools of thought when it stopped being fun for Ron, but there are very definately 2 periods of "Ron" at Macca.

The first is he changed when Senna died. Although no longer at Macca, Ron basically regarded Senna as the only other one as OCD as he was in the game. The second is that it was the day Max became FIA head honcho. Baiting and beating Max went from being a fun game to a serious full time job to combat him. Ron 2 is very much not Ron 1, his OCD has got much worse over time aswell.

[ralphrj]

Eric Mc said:

Near Heathrow (Colnbrook - I think).

http://g.co/maps/e7amm

[Eric Mc]

Still got the same windows

[FourWheelDrift]

Nice photo, good to see it's still there and in use. You could imagine the cars coming out of the garage doors on the right now.

Here's another place (no photo as it's off road) the wood shed where Tyrrell started - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=club+green+ockham&...

[Eric Mc]

Hadn't realised how close Tyrell's shed was to Wisley Airfield.

[marcosgt]

The top picture is McLaren, not Ron Dennis Globalcorp

M.

[woof]

ralphrj said:

Eric Mc said:

Near Heathrow (Colnbrook - I think).

http://g.co/maps/e7amm

ta

[Great Dane]

Great indeed to see it still in use..