Sad.....

hermunn123:

You mean the stuff about the wing? That’s just from years of relentless, obsessive research on the internet and reading anything that had to do with the McL F1 (hmm, you could pronounce that mackle-fun). (I didn’t have a life then). The company website (www.mclarencars.com) has a lot of information by itself, so just going there will tell you a lot. Also, being an avid reader of Car & Driver will teach you a lot about cars as well, and their online glossary of car terms (http://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/glossary/glossary.xml) is well worth the eyestrain.

I’m also an Aerospace Engineering student [NERD], so I’m in the process of learning how to build something like this (only it actually does fly!). Very often I’ll get back home from a long day of classes, look at something, and realize how it works; understanding the McL F1’s use of Aurum is one such case. It's just pondering.

Now, for something completely unrelated to what I was just babbling about:
For BMW fanatics:
The 6.0L BMW V12 is a wonderful piece of machinery, but here’s a power plant BMW made a while back you probably haven’t heard of. It’s got 14 cylinders, displaces 42 liters, and pumps out 1,730 HP. The BMW 801D-2 engine: http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/bmw801d.html
http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/aero/aircraft/focke_190f.htm
Ok, ok, so the 801D has 41.2 hp/L compared to the McL’s 106, but Bruce McL was still in diapers when this engine was flyin’ high.


Another potentially useless random fact:
For the drag racers out there, comparing power:weight ratios.
• A McLaren F1 LM outputs approximately 670 hp for its 2,337 pounds, yielding a power to weight ratio of 0.287 hp/lb.
• An F-15E Eagle outputs 58,000 lbs of thrust for its 40,000 pounds, yielding a power to weight ratio (at 231 mph) of 491.26 hp/lb. :D

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I think it was the December '97 issue:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22PETER+EGAN%22+%22McLaren+F1%22&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en
:)

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