awesome paintjob

[maartenvanthek]

does somebody have some more info or pics on this car?


this is #05R and apparently it was entered by BBA Competition in the 1997 Le Mans race in the GT1 class. well, not really entered, but it did do the prequalify, it did not qualify.
it might be a bit boyish or childish, butt i do reckon it has an awesome paintjob

[jkbon]

McLaren F1 GTR #005R
Parabolica Motorsports (BBA) (F)
Sponsors: Tuiles TBF

[maartenvanthek]

dankuwel beste zuiderbuurman:P
hahaha
thanks a lot, i like the paintjob... anybody know why it didn't qualify and what happened afterwards?

[Peloton25]

The car didn't qualify because it was no longer competitive. As noted, it's a '95-spec GTR and it was trying to enter a race against much stiffer competition - not only from the newer long tail McLaren GTR's, but improved entries from Mercedes and Porsche. As far as I remember, it was also the only '95-spec GTR that contiued to race on into the '96 season without receiving the updates that McLaren built into the '96-spec cars. Other '95 GTR's like #03R & #06R which continued racing past the '95 season were upgraded to '96-spec by the factory to keep them competitive.

You can also try finding photos of the car from the '97 FIA GT series wearing that same livery and the race #25. The car appeared at Hockenheim, the Nürburgring, and Spa that year. The following year it competed again at Silverstone, Hockenheim, Dijon wearing race #27 as you see in jkbon's photo. It was on the entry list at Hungaroring, but it didn't actually show up to compete.

All in all, it was quite an impressive run - all but one other '95-spec McLaren had been retired long ago, but Jean-Luc Maury-Laribiére just wanted to keep racing and the reliability of the McLaren F1 allowed him to do so with very few repairs.

>8^)
ER

Here's another good shot of the car at pre-qualifying for the '97 LeMans race:

[mini magic]

this is personally one of my my favs.

[mini magic]

i had another but i quit the window

HEY! LOOK GUYS I EDITED IT!!!!!

Heres the one i quit

[Peloton25]

Originally posted by mini magic
this is personally one of my my favs.

Thats the same car actually, in case you weren't aware. That photo was taken towards the end of the 1995 BPR season.

The other liveries for this GTR were the silver Cesar-Yacco livery seen at the 1995 LeMans race and the Italjet pink/black livery seen at LeMans in 1996.

>8^)
ER

[mini magic]