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Hot Wheels Elite64 McLaren M6 GT – The forgotten legend FEATURETTE
How it all started – Bruce McLaren in a Nutshell: Bruce McLaren was certainly more than a legend. Born in New Zealand in 1937, he drove his first car races at the age of 15. In 1958, the Australian Jack Brabham brought him into Cooper’s Formula 1 team, and in 1959, at the age of 22, McLaren became the youngest winner of a Formula 1 race at the time. In 1966, he founded his own racing team, and in 1969 he finished third in the world championship in a racing car he had designed himself; he was able to take a total of four Grand Prix victories. But on 2…
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An automotive Icon turns +30 || McLaren F1 RED LINE CLUB FEATURETTE
F1 turns +30…. In the early 1980s, former mechanic Ron Dennis took over McLaren – and turned the new McLaren Group not only into a successful racing team, but also into a technology company. Dennis always managed to bring new partners on board – which made him one of the richest men in England. And he also repeatedly found engineers and specialists who became the best in the world in their field at McLaren. One of them was Gordon Murray. The South African had worked at Brabham from 1969 and joined McLaren as Technical Director in 1987. His vision became reality with the McLaren F1. Between 1993 and 1997, around…
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CM Model McLaren P1 GTR – Tracktool FEATURETTE
Return of the GTR after 20 years… The first McLaren with the GTR designation was the McLaren F1 GTR, which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1995. The 2015 race car version of the McLaren P1 embodies the manufacturer’s “form follows function” concept formula, as you can see from the athletic bodywork that this super sports car can boast record-breaking figures. The GTR version of the McLaren P1 is not road legal, but it doesn’t need to be. All the better, you don’t have to worry about road legality with a 1:64 scale CM model! An absolute unique silhouette of the McLaren P1 GTR Owners of the McLaren…
