F1 Gtr Le Mans
It was powered by the naturally aspirated bmw s702 v12 engine.
F1 gtr le mans. 1995 24 hours of le mans winner its production started in 1995 and over the next 10 years the f1 gtr was used in various racing series such as the bpr global gt series fia gt championship and japanese gtc and british gt championship. There was also a simple moral correctness to such a car being victorious at le mans. The f1 gtr was essentially a road car which is what le mans had originally been about. Under the name of kokusai kaihatsu racing and with the since famous ueno clinic livery it was lanzante motorsport who won the 24 hours of le mans in 1995 with a mclaren f1 gtr driven by jj lehto.
In case you are not too familiar with le mans the race is open to several different classes and the mclaren would race in one of the gt categories. By any standards that 1995 race was an epic. The mclaren f1 gtr is a racing variant of the mclaren f1 sports car first produced in 1995 for grand touring style racing such as the bpr global gt series fia gt championship jgtc and british gt championship. Mclaren took first place in that race with the remaining four cars finishing.
Their design and liveries are meant to re create the five mclaren g1 gtrs that raced in the 1995 24 hours of le mans. Le mans would be the equivalent of tackling an entire f1 season in one race.