RE: McLaren F1 Owners Tour 2017: PH Photo Gallery

[thegreenhell]

I think that if I was an F1 owner and had paid what was probably a substantial entry fee for a "McLaren F1 tour", I'd be a bit annoyed at the number of plebs allowed to come along in the modern cars, diluting the exclusivity of the event, not to mention all the YouTube crowd constantly hanging out in every carpark and chasing along in their own vehicles like some video paparazzi.

On reflection, if I was an F1 owner I'd rather steer clear of this type of event and go off on my own driving adventures.

[PhantomPH]

thegreenhell said:

I think that if I was an F1 owner and had paid what was probably a substantial entry fee for a "McLaren F1 tour", I'd be a bit annoyed at the number of plebs allowed to come along in the modern cars, diluting the exclusivity of the event, not to mention all the YouTube crowd constantly hanging out in every carpark and chasing along in their own vehicles like some video paparazzi.

On reflection, if I was an F1 owner I'd rather steer clear of this type of event and go off on my own driving adventures.

Yeah, nothing says "pleb" like a P1 GTR converted for the road...

[lucido grigio]

Flemke has admitted he avoids these events like the plague.

[lucido grigio]

Geoffcapes said:

Or the Harrods one.

I saw this race in 95 and 96 at LM24,along with the other cars,but the Harrods livery became my favourite,just liked the yellow green.

Subsequently the car got road registered and by coincidence shares the first 4 plate digits with my Fiat........

[moneymakestheworldgoaround]

From what I was told whilst I was there, the reason some of the newer cars were there is because the had problems with the cars being transported on the last tour, so some of them took their P1 instead to save the damage/ issues with the F1’s etc.

[Dapster]

My bucket list car of cars, would be an original factory papaya orange F1 LM. Incredibly, the Sultan of Brunei has three of the five made, which are presumably rotting away in a lock up in Brunei somewhere.

One of his LM's is finished in this hideous get up:





http://www.mclarenlife.com/forums/mclaren-p1-f1/59...

Failing that, I'd slum it in the FIna short tail....

[Cold]

Think I'd probably prefer one in RHD.

[dinkel]

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[Steve Maund]

I have a print of that picture signed by the 3 drivers

suffolk009 said:

I'm rather partial to the Ueno Clinics one. Jay Leno has a nice copy of a painting on the wall of his garage. (it's on the backwall, behind his Rocket)

I remember doing the N'ring in '98, maybe '99, and the Gulf/Davidoff car was there. I was finishing my lap on the straight in a X-flow caterham going flat out at about 100-ish. The F1 came past me travelling at least twce the speed I was. It sounded like when you;re out in the countryside and a jet flies really low overhead. Or lightning strikes almost above you. The ground shakes, you feel the noise in your bones. You try hard not to crap yourself.

Edited by suffolk009 on Thursday 5th October 17:35