Wednesday 4th October 2017

McLaren F1 Owners Tour 2017: PH Photo Gallery

Seeing a single McLaren F1 is a notable occasion, but seeing 22? Good job our supercar snapper was on hand!

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Road trips. Many of us aspire to one day go on one. Many of us have been on one. Many of us have waited by the side of the road for the AA to save us from one. However, I'm fairly confident when I say this, not many of us have taken our McLaren F1 on a road trip. And even fewer of us have joined 21 other McLaren F1s on a road trip through the French countryside to celebrate 25 years of Woking legend.

However, earlier this summer, the McLaren F1 Owners Club did just that. 22 McLaren F1s gathered including seven F1 GTRs (five of which were road legal), alongside 14 P1s, three of the six P1 LMs ever made, and a P1 GTR at a hotel in Bordeaux. French school children, who had clearly caught wind of what was going on, pressed up against the fences of their school yards to cheer as cars that had actually raced at Le Mans tore through their sleepy villages. It was a sight like no other.

Never before in my life have I stood in a car park where the £10 million Rolls Royce Sweptail was pushed to one side, and was less valuable than more than half of the cars there. Never before in my life have I stood on a wet French B-road and heard the V12 roar and characteristic gearbox whine of the F1 GTR over and over as yet more of the ultra rare, ultra valuable cars emerged mixed in between P1s, F1 road cars, MSO High Sports, and Carbon Series 675LT Spiders for good measure. Never before in my life have I driven behind a road legal F1 GTR Long Tail, only to be overtaken rapidly by a P1 LM with wing big enough to make the Wright brothers proud.

The entire occasion was surreal. Impossible to take it all in. Money and history everywhere. Three grown men stuffed cosily into cars that are worth more than most northern towns. Personal highlights included the last ever F1 built finished in the colour Yquem, which is a deep orange named after a vineyard in Bordeaux, car 018 all the way from New Zealand featuring the rare High Downforce Kit and finaly 21R, the road legal Fina F1 GTR Long Tail. Using it on the road seems completely nonsensical, making it all the more epic!

 

 

[suffolk009]

I need a little lie down now.

[Roma101]

Wonder what the front splittler repair bill was like for that lot!

[babatunde]

you know you have more pictures, so share while I wonder where I went wrong in life

[RobM77]

My favourite car by such a long way; I don't think anything else will ever come close.

Edited by RobM77 on Wednesday 4th October 15:28

[Boydie88]

Just awesome.

[Mannginger]

This is amazing. I'm so glad that events like this happen!

[AyBee]

World's slowest convoy over a speed bump

[WCZ]

more than a quarter of a billion pounds worth of cars

[ambuletz]

amazing cars, I have one in silver.....on GTAV

[cookie1600]

Great to see Andy74b letting the Lark GTR off the leash again. When are you going to drop by my work in Bolney and come and show me it (or any of your collection!) Andy?

[thegreenhell]

Another great 'PH Photo Gallery'.... in 600 x 450 resolution. I don't know why you bother watermarking them when you can't even read text that small.

[kritter86]

From 6 to 12

[PhantomPH]

The thing which strike me most, is just how...erm...bland the regular F1's look in that company. Never thought I would think of an F1 as in the inconspicuous choice.

ETA: The rear view of a P1GTR is just about as incredible as it gets in modern car design. :golfclap:

[wst]

thegreenhell said:

Another great 'PH Photo Gallery'.... in 600 x 450 resolution. I don't know why you bother watermarking them when you can't even read text that small.

+1

Speedhunters might struggle with it's "thing" for stance and stuff sometimes, but at least their pictures are a decent resolution.

[andy74b]

cookie1600 said:

Great to see Andy74b letting the Lark GTR off the leash again. When are you going to drop by my work in Bolney and come and show me it (or any of your collection!) Andy?

Where’s work??

This was such a privilege to be part of. 5 days away with good friends that not afraid to drive the cars hard. I have some really good in car stuff that I really need to edit and put online.

[Vee12V]

wst said:

thegreenhell said:

Another great 'PH Photo Gallery'.... in 600 x 450 resolution. I don't know why you bother watermarking them when you can't even read text that small.

+1

Speedhunters might struggle with it's "thing" for stance and stuff sometimes, but at least their pictures are a decent resolution.

Agreed. What is this, 1991?

[jcl]

PhantomPH said:

The thing which strike me most, is just how...erm...bland the regular F1's look in that company. Never thought I would think of an F1 as in the inconspicuous choice.

ETA: The rear view of a P1GTR is just about as incredible as it gets in modern car design. :golfclap:

I think the P1 looks like an overstyled mess by comparison. While the F1 looks more like a Soviet jet than a car. Especially in silver.

[moneymakestheworldgoaround]

I happened to be there too

[michaelw3628]

Simply stunning. A teenagers (and forty years olds) wet dream multiplied by 22 and then you add the P1's...and then the P1 GTR's.

[anonymous-user]

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