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Old 06-10-2020, 11:46 AM   #1 (permalink)
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McLAREN F1 and lift

A couple weeks ago I caught some flak for comments I made about this car. I found the source for the information:
' BIG MAC SPECIAL', by Sam Smith, ROAD & TRACK, October 2019, pgs 74-88.
The article is about the 2019 McLAREN Senna and McLAREN F1 GTR.
* McLAREN built 107 F1 road cars, and 28 F1 GTR dedicated race cars.
* British racing driver, Ray Bellm competed at the 24-Hours of Le Mans nine times.
* Bellm drove the McLAREN F1 GTR there three times.
* Bellm has owned six F1s.
* In the article, Bellm commented that:
- the F1 lacked driver aids of any kind ( page 76)
- the F1 GTR offered ' no real downforce' (page 78
- the F1 GTR ' It's satisfyingly demanding if you know what you're doing. Frighteningly demanding if you don't.' ( page 78)
- the first GTRs had problems............. The car porpoised at speed and tracked a bit............. People don't realize this, but at Le Mans in ' 95, the car... actually had lift at speed. It was the most frightening car to drive in the wet, no grip. Look at pictures, when XP5 did its high-speed run. Look how high it is off the ground! ( page 83).

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