Lap times, top speeds, so far....

[Splatz the Cow]

I'm trying to find out the lap times and top speeds of the McLaren F1 GTR in 1997. Does anyone know where I could find this info? And maybe for 96 and 95 as well. I may try to get all the times from these years in fact and all cars, from 1995 to 1998. But particularly the Big Mac.

[SL]

Any particular circuit ???

I probably have the fastest times for LM


SL

[Splatz the Cow]

Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that I was after the Le Mans times. If you could help out would be fantastic. Any car specs on hand, by the way?

[Logan]

I think the laptimes are on the ACO site or were, don't know where you'd find the top speeds though.

Going off on a tangent I think I remember reading (in Autosport?), that last year the FFSA Viper was actually faster (laptime) at the test days than the Mclaren F1 short tail version in 95/96 - just shows how far the GTS cars have gone (including the regs change in '99) against the original GT1 cars!

Logan.

[iucrmh]

If anyone has the Le Mans Annuals to hand, they will have the fastest pre-qualifying times for each car, fastest qualifying times for each driver in each car and fastest race lap for each car.

[iucrmh]

Don't forget that even in 1995 the McLaren F1 GTR wasn't the fastest qualifier in its class. The Ferrari F40 and even a Venturi (I think) outqualified it.

[Aysedasi]

The fastest F1 GTR in qualifying for Le Mans in 1997 was the 42 Schnitzer (works) car of Lehto, Soper and Piquet. Not surprisingly, Lehto set the time of 3:45.402. (Soper 3:50.516 and Piquet 3:55.260). By comparison, the sister 43 car of Kox, Ravaglia and Helary was qualified by the Frenchman in 3:48.057. (Kox - 3:50.704 and Ravaglia - 3:57.542). By way of comparison, the pole time was 3:41.581 set by Alboreto in the 7 Joest Porsche WSC95.