Emerson Fittipaldi / Mclaren M23 / Italian Grand Prix, 1975.
Can you feel the g-force?
McLaren M81 Mustang (1987-ish)
The first of Ford’s Special Vehicles Operations. Only 10 were built due to a high price tag, making these pretty much the rarest Mustangs on earth.
“To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one’s ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”
Bruce McLaren, 1964
(Source: continental-circus.blogspot.pt)
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Belgian Grand Prix (Spa), 1968
Bruce McLaren (Mclaren) and Jacky Ickx (Ferrari) race for their lives.
McLaren would win ahead of Pedro Rodriguez ahead of Ickx. More than 12 cars retired from this race due to mechanical issues. Twelve!
Emerson Fittipaldi in the McLaren M23 during the British GP (1974)
And while we’re with the M23, this was also Gilles Villeneuve’s only non-Ferrari car.
1970 British Grand Prix, Brands Hatch.
— Denny Hulme (McLaren-Ford)
— Jean Pierre Beltoise (Matra)
— Jochen Rindt (Lotus)
Elvis Presley drives the very first McLaren!
“The King of Rock and Roll drives the first McLaren – the Elva M1A group 7 car – in this scene from his 1966 film Spinout. In the clip, found for us by McLaren Design and Development Director, and all round legend, Neil Oatley.
The car itself was apparently raced in the UK and the US by Graham Hill. But here it’s Elvis doing the driving (well, some of it – special effects weren’t quite as good back then!). The gold car, bearing number 5, makes its first appearance at 1:07 secs on the video.
Fashions may have changed since the film was made 45 years ago, but some things stay the same. When Elvis says “that car’s something else,” he’s told: “Imagination built this car and it takes imagination to drive it.”
— source: McLaren.com
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna shake hands at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1990, Suzuka.
