#BMW F1 2017 MANUAL#

Because above all, that’s what Murray wanted to create-not the museum piece or investment that his work has become. To lift the veil and take a look at the living, breathing car underneath. The F1’s origins have been covered to death, but we wanted to illuminate the thing’s life past the factory gates. Even McLaren’s own 903-hp P1 hybrid, which just left production, is 14 mph slower and a third of a ton heavier. Porsche’s iconic Carrera GT is a decade newer but slower to 60 mph and more difficult to drive. The Bugatti Veyron is faster but more complicated and distant. Astonishingly, every supercar since has been something of a dilution. The F1 was unveiled to the public 25 years ago, in May of 1992. And pretty much everything else they threw at it. FIA rules left the model 27 hp down on its roadgoing sister, but it won Le Mans anyway. Murray had never wanted to take the car racing, but customer demand prompted the creation of the F1 GTR, essentially a production F1 with a roll cage. McLaren famously flew mechanics around the world to service it. It came with a built-in 14.4k modem for sending diagnostic information to the factory, at a time when most of America didn’t have an Internet connection. Along with a small team of engineers, Rosche built the F1’s engine in just nine months, after McLaren partner Honda got cold feet. The latter was the work of BMW Motorsport’s Paul Rosche, the genius behind the German company’s 1000-plus-hp, championship-winning Formula 1 four-cylinder. He got whatever he wanted, from an engine cover lined with real gold foil to that landmark V-12. Neither Murray nor McLaren had ever built a road car, but the company gave him carte blanche. In Woking, he co-designed the McLaren that gave Ayrton Senna his first F1 championship. Gordon Murray, the F1’s chief designer, had come to McLaren after a stint at Brabham, where he drew two title-winning Formula 1 cars.

By 1993, McLaren had won seven Formula 1 constructors’ championships and landed wins everywhere from Can-Am to the Indy 500. And it came from a small, eminently focused company at the height of its power. From general layout to minor design touches, the McLaren F1 was dictated by the will of one remarkable engineer. (Or that most of those features were standard on cars costing far less.) What you did get was the fastest production car in history-231 mph- and one of the least compromised road machines ever built. You did not get anti-lock or power brakes, traction control, power steering, or anything resembling an electronic safety net, despite the fact that the car cost nearly $1 million at launch.

#BMW F1 2017 MANUAL#

The roadgoing version had a world-first carbon-fiber frame a 627-hp, 7500-rpm BMW V-12 a six-speed manual gearbox and a driver’s seat mounted in the middle, aping an open-wheel race car. THE LAST GREAT ANALOG CAR WAS BUILT, in 107 examples, between 19.

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