Hello all

Here is a challenge for you

Who has the picture that has the most Mclaren F1's in it? They can be roadgoing or racing variants (or both?!) but preferably roadgoing.

Proof is in the posting of the picture

1/10 is Peloton.......

I'll let Chris post it since he's the one who scanned it - but the shot with the most F1s that I have seen comes from Driving Ambition. It shows 9 McLaren F1s outside the McLaren Cars factory at the F1 GTR introduction. It's the only photo I have ever seen from the event unfortunately. Must have been quite a sight.

>8^)
ER

Here one i took that,s has 4 in it Le mans winner at the back the red is
now Nick Mason car,XP LM1 and Mcalren own car

http://image50.webshots.com/50/2/58/80/467425880XQWIpe_ph.jpg

tak43

Thanks Erik. I too, can't believe more pics haven't come out from this event:

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38545004-O.jpg


This one comes fairly close though:

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38545452-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38545459-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38545464-O.jpg

I belive they were taken at Goodwood. I have no idea on the year

Chris - The year on those was 1995. The Festival of Speed was approx 1 week after LeMans.

tak43 - that's an awesome photo you shared. Any chance you have more from that setting? I have never seen a single shot of those cars together like that.

>8^)
ER

The year these were taken was 1995 i was there
you were aloud to through the barrier and taken photo they would only let a few people on and you give a picture bookmark of 5 Mclaren that race in the BPR series of that year i have the same photos that i took in my collection

tak43

Yes give a few moments i am upload a couple more

Here is another

http://image61.webshots.com/61/7/68/6/467476806GrZBfM_ph.jpg

Here is another one

http://image56.webshots.com/56/8/21/51/467482151tQZKSR_ph.jpg
tak43

Great pics tak43! :)

I can't see the shots! :( Is there anyway somebody could rehost them? For some reason my computer says that I'm "Not authorized to view this page."

Great shots everybody! :)

Two options:

Right-click on the links, select "Copy Shortcut" and then paste it into a new browser window.

If using Internet Explorer, click on the link, and when the page loads that gives you the error, click the "Go" button at the end of the address bar or "Refresh" to load the image.

Edit: Third option - Right-click on the links, and select "Save Target As..." and select the location for the image to be saved on your PC. Once the download is complete, click "Open" to view the file.

>8^)
ER

Okay, thanks! :)

Great shots tak43!

Great shot Tak. That must have been an incredible experience.

Some old favourites:

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557549-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557560-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557568-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557583-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557613-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557596-M.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557625-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557634-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38557655-O.jpg

Exquisite shots mini! Thanks for those.


WG

A few more

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686242-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686229-M.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686231-M.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686238-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686248-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686257-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686262-M.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38686267-M.jpg

Great pics!!!!!

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708408-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708412-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708417-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708419-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708420-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708423-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708429-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708426-M.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708431-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708433-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38709262-M.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38709265-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38709269-M.jpg

Thanks for doing the browsing of your collection for us, MM!!

The last one is new to me. What occasion/date is that exactly?

It's a screengrab from the "Martin Brundle's Supercars" DVD.

He pays a visit to the McLaren Technology Center in one of the bonus scenes to give a quick overview of the Merc/McLaren SLR, and while he is there he briefly mentions the F1, LM and GT that you see in that shot.

It's a great DVD, you should really grab a copy for yourself. :thumbsup:

>8^)
ER

Will do. I put it on my list of 'Wannahaves' :D

..and my wishlist at Amazon, of course, if they offer it.

Nice pics Mini.

Anyone have the cover shot of the 1997 Endurance GT book. That shot has at least 6 McLaren GT's.

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813373-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813378-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813380-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813382-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813383-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813384-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813386-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813392-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813395-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813397-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813400-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813391-M.jpg



And this one definatley takes the cake for GTR's:

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813385-M.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38813386-O.jpg

Anyone know which episode of Best Motoring this shot comes from? I would love to get my hands on the tape.

>8^)
ER

Hello,

Le Castellet ? The ad is in french. Some friends were there, it was marvellous !

Ciao
Phil

Hi, 2 personnal pics.


http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/557/mclarenf1circu5ap.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1512/2mclarenf1gtr3zc.jpg

Hello Track - great to have you here. Your pics are always wonderful. :thumbsup:

>8^)
ER

As long as we're posting pairs of cars (not limiting it to groups):

http://douging.smugmug.com/photos/5545280-M.jpg

http://douging.smugmug.com/photos/5545289-M.jpg

http://douging.smugmug.com/photos/17305375-M.jpg

Hey, how come no one posted this one yet:

http://douging.smugmug.com/photos/4534649-M.jpg

Hey, how come no one posted this one yet:

I wanted to leave it for you. ;)

Here's another great collection of F1s:

http://a5.cpimg.com/image/B9/69/26295225-41a6-027400AB-.jpg :lol2:

>8^)
ER

All the ones i have have a logo in the corner. Another one of my pet peeves... seeing someone put their own logo on someone elses work (i scanned the original)

Please don't post pictures of my garage!


:wink:

Lol. Btw, the comment i made above was about the pic drew posted, not Erik's ;)

I think thats all i have

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38825565-M.jpg

Here's a decent size of the one I think is best. No tampering with any logo's here, it's as is.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9651/f1gtf1gtr95f1gtr97f1lmf1standa.th.jpg (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=f1gtf1gtr95f1gtr97f1lmf1standa.jpg)

Here's a decent size of the one I think is best. No tampering with any logo's here, it's as is.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9651/f1gtf1gtr95f1gtr97f1lmf1standa.th.jpg (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=f1gtf1gtr95f1gtr97f1lmf1standa.jpg)
Yep, thats the original one i scanned

I have a version that I scanned long ago and cleaned up a bit. It's easily recognizable as it doesn't have the puddle in the top left corner anymore.

>8^)
ER

You can tell its mine because when i pieced them together the mclaren logo on the front of the silver car overlapped a bit and looks a bit "off". Also, the black thing on the front of the silver car is half black, half grey-ish

Surprisingly, none of tvrfreak's factory visit photos have made it into this thread yet.

>8^)
ER

I figgured i'd either let him post them or someone else would. Either way, i'm sure most of us have seen them.

An old one from my collection:

http://www.supratech.org/McLaren/gtc2-002.jpg

holy crap there are a lot of great photos in this thread...i am slowly building up a collection...
you just cant find photos like this if you search on google or something...
unless im doing it wrong, ive tried for years, thank god i finally found this forum!

An old one from my collection:

http://www.supratech.org/McLaren/gtc2-002.jpg

that must be the 1997 race at silverstone...where the race was called due to the increasingly bad weather and the kox/ravaglia fina car barely won...

that must be the 1997 race at silverstone...where the race was called due to the increasingly bad weather and the kox/ravaglia fina car barely won...

Actually it's the Sebring race here in the USA.

>8^)
ER

Peloton is correct. That is a photo from the actual race in Sebring. The sunny pictures in the 1997 GT Endurance for Sebring is incorrect - taken during practice/qualifying. The Sebring race was done in the rain.

Here's an image I pieced together of the F1s in the BMW Museum. In the original shot, the photo is split at the pole between the V12 LMR and GTR #18R, putting them at opposite ends of the picture.

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

Also, here's a better version of a shot that Chris included on page 1 with the included caption from Driving Ambition. I realized a while back that there is a problem with the caption. Anyone else realize what it is?

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

>8^)
ER

Or any pics from Bruneii? That always seems to be a hard nut to crack.

I think tvrfreak is having hosting issues...all of his links on his site seem to be broken??! If anyone else has his pics hosted, please share. This is such an awesome thread!!!

Or any pics from Bruneii? That always seems to be a hard nut to crack.

Did you mean to put this post in the multiple F1 thread? I certainly haven't heard of any wrecked F1s from Brunei.

>8^)
ER

Ooh, yeah. Please move it if you can. Thanks!

I realized a while back that there is a problem with the caption. Anyone else realize what it is?

>8^)
ER


That's not XP3.

That's not XP3.

xp3 has the high-mounted mirrors? so that cant be xp3?........

Is it 001 then?

That's not XP3.

Correct! :thumbsup:

XP3 does not have high mirrors, and to my knowledge it never has.

What it does have that are different from the car in those photos are the prototype corner lenses. We saw them in the recent photos of XP3 when Gordon particpated in the Alfred Dunhill Motorities Tour. This would not be something that could be easily changed, and there would be no reason to upgrade the nose piece to production spec, and then revert back to the earlier style.

I really don't know which car it is, but that detail certainly rules out XP3 in my mind. We know its an early car since it has the Citroen-sourced mirrors, but as for which chassis it is, that's going to be a tough one to figure out.

>8^)
ER

damn i was too slow... its not xp3...at least i realized it...thats good for something right? o and my bad on the sebring photo, i assumed it was silverstone because i did not know the sebring race was run in the rain...

wasn't there a 10th anniversary run through france...?

If it happened, no photos ever materialized from it.

In this day of digital cameras and cellphone cameras, I find that very hard to believe.

>8^)
ER

It was a great idea, but it never materialised. Why ofcourse is something you will not find in any side-column news item in the car magazines. :(

Aparently something did happen but it turned into more of a publicity stunt by the organizer (not McLaren) and only a few cars showed up. At least thats how i remember it.

No, nothing happened. It was postponed, then canceled.

I'm not talking about the one to Le Mans. This one was a few years ago. A good friend of tvrfreak told me about it :D

He was lying to impress you. Maybe he likes you! :D

Sure :rolleyes:

He's proven to me numerous times he's "in the know". What reasons would he have to lie to me about an event in France? :uhoh:

So we're talking 2001?? How many F1's? And where did they show up? If this thing did take place, like you are saying, I'm sure we can go and search in certain places to find some nice photographic material.

Thanks,

Bucciali

I doubt there are any photos anywhere. They would have surfaced by now

Here's the original thread where the event in France was discussed:

McLaren Gathering - is it happening (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=101801)

>8^)
ER

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708423-O.jpg

http://k5mcl.smugmug.com/photos/38708426-M.jpg

These two pictures are amazing! Please, please, please tell me you have better versions of each!

First one, no, unfortunately.

Second one, possibly. It's a detail shot of a bigger image showing the 4 different types, F1, F1GT, F1 LM and F1 GTR. Search for 'Rosso' and thou shall find it. :D