The Official: "There's no such thing as a dumb question about the McLaren F1" thread

[andybee]

Originally Posted by murraydeschot

I had thought about enquiring what colour of socks Ron Dennis was wearing during the famous discussion at Linate Airport, but was scared someone would actually take the question seriously, answer and post photographic proof!

Black Hugo Boss socks - he would have been in McLaren travel gear

[webslinger283]

Does anyone know what type of glue was used to hold the individual peices of the car to form the monocoque...it is clearly visibal in the original top gear test with tiff driving around XP4 as some kind of black goop....anyone know what it is?

[andybee]

Originally Posted by webslinger283

Does anyone know what type of glue was used to hold the individual peices of the car to form the monocoque...it is clearly visibal in the original top gear test with tiff driving around XP4 as some kind of black goop....anyone know what it is?

It will just have been some RTV silicone adhesive....at least on the GP side, it was used all the time, some industrial stuff (Loctite IIRC), would stick anything

[Le Man]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Anyone have a better photo of the rear of GTR #06R taken at the 1995 LeMans race, showing the "PER TE AYRTON" sticker, than this one?



Thanks in advance!

>8^)
ER

Clipped this from the Cotton GTR book, if its of any use.



Its as scanned, so you can play with it in photoshop .

[Peloton25]

Thanks for the responses gentlemen. (still no lesbians here, I guess... )

Chris- missed your reply earlier. Not sure what you were thinking this is for, but really I just wanted to see if there was a better reference of it for the future. No particular 'need' at the moment.

The first 5 shots in this Flickr gallery are pretty cool:

McLaren Set

>8^)
ER

[mini magic]

Oh i thought the owner was restoring it back to "Le Mans spec" or something similar

[Le Man]

Is this one any good?



I have seen a close up shot, not sure where? it may have been on a VHS/DVD clip.

[Peloton25]

Actually that one is pretty interesting because the text is not all in capital letters like the others, which implies the sticker made at least two appearances on the rear of the car. Thanks!

>8^)
ER

[andybee]

Originally Posted by Le Man

Is this one any good?



I have seen a close up shot, not sure where? it may have been on a VHS/DVD clip.

is that from 96 though? Note the carbon engine cover and the recessed 96 lights.

[Peloton25]

Good eye Andy - sometimes I don't pay attention like I should.

Interestingly, Greg's "Monza '96" photo ID'd by DocGTR appears to have the same writing as Le Man's picture, but still wears the original road car tail lamps.

>8^)
ER

[DocGTR]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Good eye Andy - sometimes I don't pay attention like I should.

Interestingly, Greg's "Monza '96" photo ID'd by DocGTR appears to have the same writing as Le Man's picture, but still wears the original road car tail lamps.

>8^)
ER

Yes, that latest addition is from 1996 Jarama race as 06R had that type of rear wing and the smaller and edgier mirrors. Also it has already the '96 type of rear lamps which were not on it in Monza. Thanks Erik for pointing that out. Still I had guessed this would be from Jarama as the track surface color matched better to Jarama than Monza.

During the 1995 season the text was written in capitals (PER TE AYRTON) in Arial type of font and then in 1996 in Times New Roman kind of font (Per te Ayrton). In 1996 it also appeared on the front in some races, e.g. Le Mans.

[Le Man]

Originally Posted by murraydeschot

Here’s a genuine F1-orientated question though. At approximately the same time as Peter Stevens was styling the F1, he also worked on the design of a loudspeaker for an English loudspeaker company. Upon it’s release many reviews drew comparisons and comments on Peter’s involvement with the F1. Who was the loudspeaker manufacturer? For extra ‘Brownie Points’; can anyone name the speaker model he styled and post photos? I can answer the manufacturer question. The model designation escapes me however!

TAG/McLaren Audiolab

Speakers= F1,s



Only sound coming out of these speakers, is an F1 car on full song!!

[mclarenman]

Several owners of f1's had lm downforce kits.
Would it be possible to customize an f1 with a gt or a longtail gtr (with spoiler) kit? And if so, has any owner customized their Mclaren in this specific way?

[Peloton25]

I let that one run for a day to see if anyone else had a comment.

My answer is 'I don't know' - so it seems silly to reply, right? - but I'd speculate that while it might be plausible to do, that the factory probably would not undertake such a drastic change to a car like that. By all evidence we have, they certainly haven't done anything like that up to this point.

I'm sure the monocoque for the longtail cars was different at each end to allow the new bodypanels to attach. The rear wings or fenders are dramatically different on the longtail cars, and that's not something that could just be tacked on - they tie into a significant portion of the structure of the car. Of course if you waved the right amount of money at them, I won't deny that anything is possible.

>8^)
ER

[murraydeschot]

Originally Posted by Le Man

TAG/McLaren Audiolab

Speakers= F1,s



Only sound coming out of these speakers, is an F1 car on full song!!

Wrong!