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Old 16 Apr 2009, 11:38 (Ref:2442146)   #1
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How long before the new role for Ron Dennis sees McLaren active is sports or GT racing again?
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Old 16 Apr 2009, 11:55 (Ref:2442161)   #2
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Not long I would think . As far as I remember , Le Mans is still on his mind .

Be great to see McLaren build a LMP1 car and go for out right victory .
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Old 16 Apr 2009, 12:12 (Ref:2442182)   #3
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Nah. I reckon Ron's had enough of the FIA by now.

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Old 16 Apr 2009, 12:48 (Ref:2442215)   #4
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Nah. I reckon Ron's had enough of the FIA by now.
...so he'll go ACO racing

If they do, I just hope they don't live up to the reputation they got themselves in F1.
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Old 16 Apr 2009, 14:15 (Ref:2442272)   #5
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I think they a far more likely to go GT racing with a supported customer programme than to head for protoypes - at least in the short to medium term.
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They will need to develope some sort of GT car first before going racing, times are hard and money tight, however there is no better way for any car to climb into history than racing, so lets hope a maclaren will be seen at Le mans in the near future.
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Old 16 Apr 2009, 15:04 (Ref:2442309)   #7
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There building a new road cor, so mabye we'll see them with a GT1 or GT2 version of that
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Old 16 Apr 2009, 15:54 (Ref:2442351)   #8
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I reckon as Ron has nothing better to do , they will go for an overall win .
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I think wee will see the first test photos of the F1/P11 car next year!.
When it's launched in 2011, it will run a year on the road, and then being developed to a FIA GT, GT1 (aco) or GT2 (aco). If that is successful, then McLaren might think on developing an Lmp1!?, but what should be remembered about this car is that it probably wont be driven by an McLaren engine!. So any racing program would have too be accepted by the engine producer! (Like BMW did a part in the Mclaren F1 program!)
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is Mercedes owning a part of McLaren or McLaren F1?
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is Mercedes owning a part of McLaren or McLaren F1?
F1 team: 40% in September 2008 - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/70680

Daimler 40% (2007) of McLaren Group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_Group#Ownership
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Old 17 Apr 2009, 00:38 (Ref:2442664)   #12
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dont forget ALL those renders have been produced by people OUTSIDE of McLaren. You can tell the Car mag one is based off of some Ascari images. Only images to trust are the actual spy shots
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The chassis in those photos resembles a bit the F1 from the 90s.
I liked those cars.
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what are homologation numbers for GT2 these days anyhow?
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Old 19 Apr 2009, 01:38 (Ref:2444215)   #15
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Plus some other qualifiers Here Through 2.2

2.1.3 -
The "LM" GT2 Grand Touring car must meet a minimum
of the following criteria :
a/ To be regularly produced by a manufacturer
approved by ACO ;

A regular production implies a permanent
implementation of the means required to
produce a minimum of 1 car per week for the
"big manufacturers" and one car per month
to the "small manufacturers". If the
production is not respected, the ACO will
suspend the homologation of the car the year
after. The suspension of the homologation
will cease once the production delay has
been made up. It will be permitted to
compete with the car as soon as a minimum
of 100 road cars for the "big manufacturers"
and 25 road cars for the "small

manufacturers" will be produced.



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only 25? Thought it was higher than that. OK then, no problem there...
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The F1 Le Mans and GT projects were pretty heavily focused on privateer money rather than factory team + sponsorship.

I guess it all depends whether the privateers want to jump on board and run a McLaren GT car. I dare say there'll be a few who will
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Gt3, Gt2??
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Dug out an old McLaren thread with the announcement of the new P1. The spiritual successor to the F1.



Commence salivating and speculating about if/where this thing could race...
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Dug out an old McLaren thread with the announcement of the new P1. The spiritual successor to the F1.



Commence salivating and speculating about if/where this thing could race...
Challenge accepted!

My first though was actually how much it reminds me of the Corvette DP
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Dug out an old McLaren thread with the announcement of the new P1. The spiritual successor to the F1.



Commence salivating and speculating about if/where this thing could race...
Yuhk. The whole thing just looks all wrong. Horrific.
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Yuhk. The whole thing just looks all wrong. Horrific.

Eye of the beholder Bob - I think it's absolutely glorious.
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P1 could also be a reference to a future Le Mans project .

The F1 was supposed to be F1 technologies put in a road car. Perhaps the P1 is the same, just reversed.
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That thing will never race, I'm sure of it. They have to downgrade it massively, that thing has 1000hp and KERS. It doesn't seem logic at all to downgrade that, just for racing.

How many road cars do you know with similar hp figures that were turned into race cars? Exactly, none.

McLaren will continue racing with the MP4-12C.
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That thing will never race, I'm sure of it. They have to downgrade it massively, that thing has 1000hp and KERS. It doesn't seem logic at all to downgrade that, just for racing.

How many road cars do you know with similar hp figures that were turned into race cars? Exactly, none.
According to Ron Dennis, that car this time is designed for circuit, whoever purchase this car will not have the skills to race it (Except F1 drivers):

Our aim is not necessarily to be the fastest in absolute top speed but to be the quickest and most rewarding series production road car on a circuit,” McLaren Automotive managing director Antony Sheriff said. “It is the true test of a supercar’s all round ability and a much more important technical statement. Our goal is to make the McLaren P1 the most exciting, most capable, most technologically advanced and most dynamically accomplished supercar ever made.”
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