I've hosted them and are fairly sure they're new here (please correct me if they're ancient!):

Pics (http://rudicheow.com/MF1/)

Edited to add: they must be fairly recent, judging by the E60 in the car park.

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New for me its the piston heads car cant rember the chassis no thats for the pics fery much its nice that there all zipped up for easy download. For those in the UK Autocar mag www.autocar.co.uk has a sotry on a new "super enzo" f60 whatever in turnes out to be its mainly the usual guff (aka f1 car for the road, last super supercar its been tha way since f50 hasnt it.....) a decision on production still being 8 months awary Peter Stevens designer of F1 asthetically has some intresting stuff to say and Ross Brawn declares that the enzo dint have to be so functional and that it could of met its aerodynamic targets and been better look.

Anybody want to link to more pics of this blue car.

Edit just to say thanks for the pics and those frount tires seam a little bald to me anyone else.

That McLaren looks a little trashed, the color combinations makes it look "used" I think.
I like black rims and that blue is a nice color, however I don't like them together on that car.
If they added some metallic in the paint it probably would seem like a new car.

But, what the H.......McLarens look good no matter what color or scheme you select.

very nice pics. thanks. I'd have to admit though it does look used because of the color combination. But Mclaren's were meant to be used an not a car to be held in a show room.

very nice pics. thanks. I'd have to admit though it does look used because of the color combination. But Mclaren's were meant to be used an not a car to be held in a show room.I agree. He's probably one of the few owners who has pushed the limits of his car. I can't stand people who buy them, and put them in a climate controlled showroom as a trophy.

Edited to add: they must be fairly recent, judging by the E60 in the car park.
Taken October 2004.

Also available here:
http://www.joe911.com/mclaren-f1

and here for hi-res versions:
http://www.joe911.com/mclaren-f1/hires

Very nice pics thanks !

Thanks for posting Joe - those high-res pics will especially be appreciated here.

By the way, if you've never been on here before, this place is THE online F1 fan site. The amount of trivia these guys know borders on insanity (they even maintain a detailed database of chassis numbers and car locations and try as best as they can to track the locations of the vehicles as they are bought and sold).

There are also some hardcore collectors of models and all sorts of F1-related paraphenillia (sp?).

It's a cool place. :)

The blue is growing on me it realy is. I think it looks just right used but not abused the only thing that looks slightly thrashed is the stearing wheel and tyres however those high mounted wing mirrors dont look to good to me. Would be tempted to have the wheels black to lifes to short to spend all day cleaning them after every run to stop the break dust eating them.

I'm also curious about the black cable ties and plastic on the steering wheel. I know the white tape is on there to denote the home position.

And why no center logo replacement wheel?

And why no center logo replacement wheel?
The wheel was a temp. experiment (for size) and so is a little rough around the edges!

joe, what more is there you can enlighten us with... (is that proper english?)

Thanks for the pics Joe - they are really great. :thumbsup:

I love the additional carbon fiber around the instrument cluster and secondary controls and had not noticed that in any prior photos of the car. In retrospect, I think they all should have had that.

It seems you know the car fairly well. If you know the owner well too, please pass along that this group of F1 fans admires his originality with the car, the fact that he is a true driver of (in my opinion) the world's best ever driver's car, and I for one also really enjoyed reading all of his insightful commentary on the car over at PistonHeads.com.

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Pheloton can you put up/link to previous pics of this car For us newer members? Its nice to see that this car is used and enjoyed. I like the carbon seatbacks cant understand why some cars dont have this.

Incidentily i was reading something a little while ago about a car with simillarly treated black wheels they were described as stove black enamiled which may be the case hear. The more i see of this car the more it appeals whingmirrors and all its growing on me really is...

You can find many photos of this car in theflinger's gallery:

http://flinger.ath.cx/F1/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=1

There's some here too, probably redundant of the ones in the gallery:

http://www.benphotos.net/top.php?crit=clic&nbparpage=50

You can try searching the forums as well. There may be more hiding in here.

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simple question about this type of F1 why did they make the mirrors raised like that. I heard every F1 has a unique something but why the mirrors.

Thanks Pheloton those links were great re reading my previous post i would like to appologise for being so rude the word plese being very noticeable by its absence for one. i am verry Sorry and humbily apologise. Is the silver car on page 2 of the second link 045 if so how much do we know of this stunner never seen it look so good as it does in those pics. Incidentily on the links at the begining of this thread the thumnails give away the reg no of the car still wares an english plate i see odviousley a commom mistake never noticed it before with the thumnailes.

I'm also curious about the black cable ties and plastic on the steering wheel. I know the white tape is on there to denote the home position.


Looks like he opted for an aftermarket steering wheel because it's OMP not Personal. The white is part of the steering wheel. Those items on the spokes of the steering wheels could be com buttons to communicate with someone in the pits or buttons to activate something.

Another thing interesting is the different bright lights. I don't recall McLaren having projector lights on the inboard set.

Looks like he opted for an aftermarket steering wheel because it's OMP not Personal. The white is part of the steering wheel. Those items on the spokes of the steering wheels could be com buttons to communicate with someone in the pits or buttons to activate something.
As I said - the OMP wheel was merely an experiment to see if that size of wheel works well - so it was cable-tied etc. as there was no point doing a fancy job.
The cable ties are holding on the horn and main-beam switches that are normally mounted on the back of the wheel.

It seems you know the car fairly well. If you know the owner well too, please pass along that this group of F1 fans admires his originality with the car, the fact that he is a true driver of (in my opinion) the world's best ever driver's car, and I for one also really enjoyed reading all of his insightful commentary on the car over at PistonHeads.com.
I'll ask whether he reads here at all - I know that he knows you guys are over here but I don't think he reads it - he likes pistonheads.
I do know the car pretty well, I have driven it too, as reported on PH.

simple question about this type of F1 why did they make the mirrors raised like that. I heard every F1 has a unique something but why the mirrors.

As I understand it, at some point one of the owners requested that McLaren find a way to incorporate A-pillar mounted mirrors onto the car so that it would more closely resemble the placement of the mirrors on the Clinic Model. As most here should recall, the Clinic Model was the original mock-up of the F1 and it had small mirrors mounted in that same location. On the Clinic Model they even incorporated the front turn indicators. They were reportedly scrapped due to regulatory guidelines in some of the markets the F1 would be sold in.

I just assume someone really preferred that design versus what was decided on for Production and McLaren was willing to develop them as an option. They ended up using a mirror and housing borrowed from the BMW Z1 for the record. It seems that after they did the first set, other owners also decided that they wanted them as there are a handful of F1s that have them. In addition to this car (which is chassis #040 btw) there is also #071 - the Historic Orange F1 that is used to show the build process in "Driving Ambition"; one of Ralph Lauren's silver F1s has them; the silver F1 with the polished wheels seen alongside an F50 in Auto Welt magazine had them; and I have seen one other short video clip of a more dull silver car that wore them too (but that could have been #040 before it's transformation). That makes at least 4 F1s that wear them so they certainly aren't exclusive to this car. I'm fairly certain this car had them from new, but maybe joe or even flemke himself can confirm the details on that.

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Joe - I like PistonHeads too, I just never find the time to make it over there unless someone links us to a thread there. The discussions I have read there seem rather stimulating in most cases though.

As for the comment about getting to drive the F1, that must mean you know your way behind the wheel quite well. :thumbsup: I recall flemke describing what his criteria was for letting someone drive the car and it didn't seem like an easy list to get on. ;) :grinno:

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I'm not saying the aftermarket steering wheel is a bad thing. That's what my company caters to - people that want to personalize their vehicle with accessories like steering wheels, shift knobs, wheels etc. We have plenty of Porsche owners that swap these things out. And we happen to have a large racing clientele that do use smaller suede steering wheels instead of the factory leather.

My company is all about enhancing a vehicle to your individual tastes/needs whether its for Pro Racing, Club Racing, DE's or just on the street.

Even though the color takes some getting used to, I personally think it's nice to see someone personalize a McLaren to this extent. I can respect that as well as the fact the owner is not in complete awe of the car and can point out its weaknesses.

very nice pics. thanks. I'd have to admit though it does look used because of the color combination. But Mclaren's were meant to be used an not a car to be held in a show room.


I couldnt agreed with you more!
I'm definately a guy who would use it all the time myself, but at the same time I would be able to have it look great also.
I think that particular McLaren would look way "fresher" with a color thats more alive than that! (metallic blue, perhaps)
The paint simply seems old and dated and the black rims only serves as an optical dillution who makes it seem worse than it actually is.
As said, I like that blue and love black rims, but not in that combination on that car.

It's not an ugly McLaren, it simply does not use it beautiful potencial.
There are other owners who uses theyre car as well but they don't seem to be that worn down.....

Nice pictures, and I love that color. I do prefer the standard mirrors though.

Im picking up a lot new pics at the moment is the first link pheloton posted dow i havent got them all and it dosent seam to work anymore?

Im picking up a lot new pics at the moment is the first link pheloton posted dow i havent got them all and it dosent seam to work anymore?

Just bad timing for you - check theflinger's post in the Gallery thread from yesterday:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2725833&postcount=93

Should be back in action sometime next week or possibly sooner. Keep an eye on that thread for updates. :thumbsup:

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Isnt there a yellow car with the high mirrors to? wouldnt happen to have the pic of the one next to the f50 would you?

There were a few photos that surfaced sometime back that appeared to be a yellow car with high mirrors. In actuality, I believe they are shots of #071 taken under some very harsh lighting and using a lengthy shutter speed to over expose it's Historic 'Paypaya' Orange body making it appear to be yellow. Here's one of those shots:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F1/071maybe.jpg

You'll notice when you save it that the filename is 071maybe.jpg - it's still not confirmed, but in this instance I'd be very surprised to find that I am wrong.

Here are two shots of the silver F1 with the polished wheels I mentioned. Unfortunately these aren't available in a higher res and the chassis number remains currently unknown.

http://speed.supercars.net/pitlane/pics/881661c.jpg

http://speed.supercars.net/pitlane/pics/881661d.jpg

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Here are two shots of the silver F1 with the polished wheels I mentioned. Unfortunately these aren't available in a higher res and the chassis number remains currently unknown.
Anyone know which circuit, or even which country, the siler car is at?

I'm fairly certain the photos for the article were taken on the Nurburgring F1 track. The plate on the F50 appears to be German as well. The plate on the F1 appears to be a dummy plate to me.

I'd share more info from the article, but my German is a little weak right now. :grinno: The article looks to be really wonderful though and the photos are all spectacular. For reference, it comes from the May/June 1997 issue of Auto Welt magazine.

One of the captions lists the high mirror option at 23,000£ for the record.

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Pheloton any more pics of 071 or from that article would be MASSIVLEY apreciated.

Where is this blue one residing now?

I heard that it sometimes shows up at the Nürburgring in Germany.
I want to see this car too. Would be my 7th Mac:-)

Hello,

just a question probably already answered : what the plate of this one ? Is it french or english or ..?

I heard that the car would be parked in France, is it possible ?

Ciao
Phil

just a question probably already answered : what the plate of this one ? Is it french or english or ..?

I heard that the car would be parked in France, is it possible ?

It is on an English plate at the moment, and not currently in France.

Yeah Joe911, thank you to clarify this facts.

You seems to know very well this car.

Ciao
Phil

Figured I'd resurrect this thread since there are even newer photos of his car with his current iteration of 19" wheels. I believe he is still working on the proper wheels for the car. You certainly have to give the man credit for making every attempt at updating the car by using current technology tires, etc. He's one of the few owners out there that share their thoughts and well as DRIVE their cars.

http://joe911.com/mclaren-f1/2006-03-28-7652.jpg

http://joe911.com/mclaren-f1/2006-03-28-7634.jpg

http://joe911.com/mclaren-f1/2006-03-28-7638.jpg

Wow - those look great.

He's also a very brave man driving that car around on wet roads.

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Nice set of CNC centres with split rims, Interesting!!!