Dec 18 2014
Winning big… The MP4/13 was the first McLaren car completely designed under the lead of Adrian Newey. The year before, when Newey arrived at the Woking-based team, the design of the MP4/12 was already too advanced for him to have a major influence in it. Having left Williams and been placed on ‘gardening leave’ he […]
Dec 18 2014
Ready for Le Mans… Mercedes-Benz would use the 1997 CLK GTR AMG for the first two rounds of the 1998 season before upgrading to the CLK GTR AMG LM. After conquering the FIA GT Championship with CLK GTR, Mercedes-Benz set its sights on competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998, which it had not been at since 1991 with Sauber-Mercedes […]
Dec 17 2014
As the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/International Touring Car Championship had folded in late 1996, with both remaining competitors Opel and Alfa Romeo leaving due to the high costs of their 4WD designs, Mercedes-Benz had no top series to compete in. With the success of the BPR Global GT Series leading to the FIA taking over and turning it into an international series, known […]
Dec 17 2014
The Indy 500 ’94 was dull if it came to dices for the lead between drivers of different teams. About the only thing that could prevent a Penske victory was unreliability of the new engines and the tradition that no engine ever won first time out at Indy. But traditions are there to be broken […]
Dec 16 2014
The West McLaren Mercedes Benz team had a “sneak preview” of its new 1997 car at its factory in Woking early on the morning of January 14. The prototype McLaren-Mercedes MP4-12 was unveiled in an orange and black livery – the color used on the old McLaren CanAm cars of the 1960s – but will be raced in a […]
Dec 15 2014
The race-car that changed everything… The Penske PC-23 was designed by Nigel Bennett, who based its design on the 1993 car, the PC-22, which was a radical departure from the basic concept of the previous Penske cars. The PC-23 was one of the most dominant open wheel race cars ever developed. The only substantial difference of the new car were the […]
Dec 11 2014
The McLaren MP4/11 was the car with which the McLaren team competed in the 1996 Formula One season. It was driven by Mika Häkkinen, who was in his third full season with the team, and David Coulthard, who moved from Williams. McLaren had endured a disappointing season in 1995, with the McLaren MP4/10 beset by handling and reliability problems in the team’s first year in partnership […]
Dec 8 2014
There were three version of this beautiful race car. McLaren MP4/10 Designer : Neil Oatley (Dir. Technique) Henri Durand (Aérodynamique) Driver : BLUNDELL Mark; HAKKINEN Mika; Engine : Mercedes-Benz Tyre : Goodyear Chassis : Monocoque composite from fiber carbon 1995 was a season of great expectation for McLaren. The disappointing 1994 alliance with Peugeot had been annulled, and Mercedes-Benz switched […]
Nov 28 2014
The team went into the 1994 season as Sauber Mercedes, now officially Mercedes’ factory-backed team with a new car. Replacing the previous model (Sauber C12) and named Sauber C13, this one had a 3.5L V10 Ilmor engine with 735HP. New team Pacific Grand Prix Ltd took a customer supply of more dated Ilmor units. Between seasons Lehto had signed to Mild […]
Dec 22 2014
1998 – 1999 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR AMG Road Versions
McLaren’s entrance into the FIA GT1 class required that its already outstanding McLaren F1 road car be outfitted in racing trim. By contrast, the AMG solution to homologation was quite the opposite. Instead of building a race car from an existing sports car, AMG set about creating an all new GT1 contender whose homologated variants […]
By Catalin Varvara • FIA GT, MB MotorSports 2 • Tags: 1998 mercedes clk, 1999 mercedes CLK GTR AMG, CLK GTR, CLK GTR AMG, mercedes clk, Mercedes CLK GTR AMG