It's not a cloud - it was the helicopter.

I have it on good authority that the times and details you have received and reported here are not correct. The P1 has never run a timed lap at the Ring on anything but the tires Pirelli developed for it and those are not slicks. It's also gone faster than 6:47 on those road legal tires by a not-insignificant margin.…

Yeah - hard to shake a decade-long reputation. :)

This is a legacy practice from the days when automotive journalism meant 'magazines' and they had a lead time for page layout, printing and shipping. They have kept it around in the digital age to allow for websites/blogs to prepare the content and have it loaded to go live in the same instance around the world. It's…

Absolutely accurate - I was on my mountain bike coming down a technical single track at at a pretty decent speed. There was a sharp left turn ahead of me and at the point where I grabbed the front brake with a bit too much force, there was also a dip in the ground that shifted my weight forward and I went direct over…

I'll happily take every single one of the drawbacks you just listed with the knowledge that one day several years ago, this $50 Specialized helmet likely saved my life.

A few cars seem to have been delivered already in the UK. I heard the Volcano Yellow one in the pictures was delivered two weeks ago in fact. Here's another one of them with a clue to the new owner on the registration plate:

Maybe we will know tomorrow. ;)

Patience. ;)

P1 doesn't have the tires or the gearing for those speeds. Aiming for a massive (and practically useless) top speed figure would have imposed compromises counterproductive towards the P1s stated goal - to be the fastest road car around a racing circuit.

$2M was the rough cost of building the first car including the donor ZR1. The production of an additional 9 cars never took place, but they would have been somewhat less given the development costs were baked into the price of designing/building #1. I'm sure the owner of #1 would have recouped some of that expense as…

Journalism at its finest once again. :\

Thanks for setting the record straight Gene. If you hadn't posted I was primed and ready to. :)

Apparently you have not seen the latest figures for McLaren F1s. They are approaching 8-figures in USD and a couple of special ones have eclipsed that mark as well.

If you happen to use Instagram I put up a number of detail shots of the interior in this F1 the other day. I have the same account name on there that I use here, and everywhere.

Yes, amazing is a pretty good word for it.

I've seen quite a few during Monterey Car Week over the years - at least 7 out of the 33, one of them on two different occasions. Amelia Island had a road car in McLaren's display and a GTR supplied by BMW USA this past year. Salon Prive has had a few show up in past years…

It was Dietrich.

There was even a t-shirt:

If you're truly interested, the best suggestion is to track down a copy of "Driving Ambition - The Official Inside Story on the McLaren F1". It's a coffee-table type book with 272 pages that explains everything in great detail and includes a poster that lists the entire chassis history from start to finish. It was…

Thanks for the compliments here - I don't consider myself worthy of the term 'photographer' - I just try to do my best.

Let's face it too - it would have been difficult for almost anyone to take a 'bad' photo of this grouping. ;-)

No worries - I try to treat all questions as if they are at least somewhat serious and missed the point you were trying to make.

Got lucky with that shot of the Datsuns together - they were inside a transporter and the driver pulled them out to put the cars he was picking up closer to the front. I really like both…

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