An AF Exclusive - McLaren F1GTR 07R Photos

[murraydeschot]

Okay, having mentioned several times that I got the chance to drive with Larry Kinch in his McLaren F1GTR (07R) at Knockhill Circuit, Scotland in September 1998, I've often been asked for photographs.

Well, as the photo's I took were from my analogue days, and bereft of a scanner, and being asked ridiculous amounts by my local photo shop to scan them, I hadn't done much about it.

Then yesterday, a Eureka! moment happened! I have a reasonable digital camera and a tripod. Why not take photos of the photos ...

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=2134436013

My apologies if the quality is not stunning, but what the hell ... you'll NEVER have seen these shots before!

There's a few more that I'll take and put into the album later, when it's daylight!

Enjoy!

[Peloton25]

I'll put the same thing here I put in your album guestbook:

FANTASTIC!!!

What an excellent collection of photos documenting one stage of GTR #07R's history. Thanks so much for sharing!!

Seriously - these images are almost like lost treasures. I recall when Stratoraptor and I had a long (friendly) debate over some photos of #01R wearing this livery with the 'GTR' script on the side, and I tossed in two shots of what ended up being this car still thinking it was #01R, just without that 'GTR' script. I think you popped in at about the same time and if it weren't for you we never would have learned the true story of this interim livery on #07R.

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Off Topic (sort of): It just kills me to think about how many people out there must have photos like this stuffed away in an old photo album or tucked in a drawer somewhere.

Not to sidetrack your thread, but there simply MUST be more photos out there of amazing settings like these three below, yet these are the only shots I have. How can that be???







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Anyway - thanks again for sharing those shots and thanks for taking more than 5 photos as seems to be so common with F1 sightings. I'll never understand that at all either. .

>8^)
Erik

[MalkaJB]

Great shots. Thanks for sharing!

[murraydeschot]

Originally Posted by MalkaJB

Great shots. Thanks for sharing!

I'd promised to share them for ages ... just glad I worked a cheap way to do it (my Scottish heritage/upbringing shines through! )!

[Menu dei Motori]

great!
thanks a lot

[cabrio92]

Hello,

great sharing !

Peloton25 > I don't remember if we discuss on that before but I have several questions on the "Big Eight shoot"
1) When, where ?
2) VIN ?
3) #075 is on the pic ?

Ciao
Phil

[mini magic]

Phil, the "big 8" was scanned out of driving ambition (by me ). It was taken at the launch of the 1995 GTR. Thus, 075 cannot be in the pic.


Going from right to left, i would guess the serials are as follows:

018/016/025, 017, 015/020/002, 018/016/025, 004/021/028, 018/016/025, 003/007/002/015/043, 014

Good luck narrowing them down any further. I really need to have more pics or a larger version than that to be more precise

[cabrio92]

Hello,

thank you very much minimagic ! This is excellent.
I am surprised that we have not more info on this shot.

Ciao
Phil

[igor@af]

Originally Posted by murraydeschot

Okay, having mentioned several times that I got the chance to drive with Larry Kinch in his McLaren F1GTR (07R) at Knockhill Circuit, Scotland in September 1998, I've often been asked for photographs.

Well, as the photo's I took were from my analogue days, and bereft of a scanner, and being asked ridiculous amounts by my local photo shop to scan them, I hadn't done much about it.

Then yesterday, a Eureka! moment happened! I have a reasonable digital camera and a tripod. Why not take photos of the photos ...

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=2134436013

My apologies if the quality is not stunning, but what the hell ... you'll NEVER have seen these shots before!

There's a few more that I'll take and put into the album later, when it's daylight!

Enjoy!

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