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Run with the bulls, swim with the sharks, race with the finns.

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"ХПМ, возможно, имеет сложный характер, но с другой стороны - он очень дружелюбен. Он улыбается, когда выигрывает - это здорово. Он - яркая личность, индивидуальность - и это не позволяет ему соответствовать стилю McLaren" (с) Эдди Джордан

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"ХПМ, возможно, имеет сложный характер, но с другой стороны - он очень дружелюбен. Он улыбается, когда выигрывает - это здорово. Он - яркая личность, индивидуальность - и это не позволяет ему соответствовать стилю McLaren" (с) Эдди Джордан

Кстати, это тоже Макларены (GT, 1997-1998)
1997, Нюрбургринг

1998, Спа, Davidoff Team

1998, Спа, Parabollica Motorsports

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200, левый 4, полный атас, убьемся на хрен, 300 (с)

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200, левый 4, полный атас, убьемся на хрен, 300 (с)

Quote: Originally posted by Lunna Quote: Originally posted by KimSter И почему-то после этого "инцедента" маки назывались "Серебрянными стрелами"... не Маки, а Мерсы к макам прилипло, когда Мерин в Ф1 вернулся

Я где-то читал, про Ф1 или про что-то другое, уже не помню. В гонках типа ДТМ, было полно немцев, и пару Итальянских команд. Мерсы доминировали(прям как в ДТМ), но однажды один из Мерсов так вынесло, что он перевернувшись "потерял" двигло, тот понёсся в трибуны и "стер" за собой целую сотню(а то и больше) болел... После этого Мерс заявил, что уйдет из гонок и ушел... но теперь-то "немцы" с нами..

Last edited by: KimSter on 02.06.05 19:44:54

Quote: THE GREAT MAC Worldchampionship car 1974 and 1976: McLaren Ford M23 This guy is funny indeed. Someone, I think, it was in Austrian capital Vienna, said some years ago, he looked like a badly drawn comic-figure, bur at tha time, nobody could know that the Flintstones would be be produced with real actors one day. no, the American Edward E. Mayer is really not Barney. He prefers skiing ( for this reason his winter holidays in Austria are a holy kept thing) and he has got an extensive preference for every kind of curious bets that once made him come to that fixed idea being brilliant and breakneck at the same time to race Kitzbьhels famous downhill, the Streif, in less then 3 minutes, as an amateur, of course, and not without placing a bet to earn money. The man, simply named Teddy by everybody involved in that business, has not got any problems to spend a whole working-day with playing backgammon after all. As ever the financial agreement determines how things are going, so in this case. The sense and the talent for everything belonging to business he must have got since born because Mayer had studied law at the Cornell University and took a doctorґs gegree in the subjects of economic and fiscallaw before coming over the Atlantic. Once in Europe he became one of the two advisors of Bruce McLaren (the other one was Phil Kerr, a former executive at the Brabham Racing Organisation Ltd. coming from NewZealand and being a lawyer as well) and in this position he was occupied with financial operations. When Bruce McLaren died on 2nd June 1970 the salaried team manager Teddy Mayer became an administrator, director and very soon a principal shareholder supported by Phil Kerr, Eoin S. Young and - in summer 1970 - for a short time by Dan Gurney, too. To finish first you must first finish - that is one of Mayerґs simple but logical principles taken from the McLaren enterpriseґs philosophy and the cars were reliable ever since the creation of the firm. But they became much more faster since the beginning of the 1973 season. This is the story of the best racing car ever built. Not of the most powerful, not of the fastest and not of the one with the most victories to itґs credit, but of the sum of quickness and reliability, of successses and safety, of endurance and capability of development, of costs and profits best. The McLaren ford M23 will stay in this position for a very long while in the future - if itґs performance will be able to be beaten we do not know. Many things we consider as self-evident today were at the beginning of itґs development 3 decades ago. TV transmissions via stellite were extensively expensive and not very seldom of poor quality to be made recognizable by a special insert. A pocket calculator, today often distributed as an advertisement gift absolutely free, did cost some 500 $ and that was more than a lot of people, if not the most, were able to earn in a month. The sportive automobil fan drove a 150 horse-powered, some 200 km/h fast Ford Capri RS or a BMW CSL aluminum made coupи thatґs rear wing was strictly forbidden for road use and for this reason the customer was offered it as a kit hidden in the luggage-boot, but the thing had to produced for the admission in the group 2 to compete in the Eurpean Touring Car Championship. The world about 3 decades ago and 1974, the year: With Gerald Ford ("I an no T-model" in the White House a president never to be elected came to power for the first time in history. At Cyprus the Nato states Greece and Turkey were involved in a violent conflict against each other, American fighter jet SR71 speeded from New York City to Farnborough in less than 2 hours ( it was refuelled over New Foundland in the height of 24 kilometres), people read the Archipelago Of Gulag by Alexander Solschenizyn, the reason for his expulsion out of the USSR by the old men within the Kremlin and the singer and composer Barry White ("I am no violent black" was admired mostly by the ladies for the Philisound he created being as romantic as commercial. In spite of that things developed a lot more worse in winter 1973/74 because of the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East OPEC in Vienna cut the rates of oil production drastically, the oil prices rose damatically and caused a fast growing, deep recession in Europe. Exxon became the biggesst company of the world leading General Motors second in the charts of multinational firms, on Sunday driving cars was strictly forbidden and the rider on the motorway was no cowboy in New York but a poor victim of the energy crisis. However Teddy Mayer had prepared his firm as well as possible in autumn 1973 for the 25th Formula One Worldchampionship the two-hours-limit and permanent car numbers were introduced for the first time. TEXACO meets Marlboro and the Yardleymac: The first big commercial operation in the history of Grand Prix racing.The connection between the oil company TEXACO, one of the seven majors, with the worldwide most selling cigarette brand Marlboro, presented as a team name of itґs own and by that written with a hyphen because the basic colours (red and white) are identical, was a masterpiece of marketing strategy. Yardley cosmetics, the classical McLaren main sponsor of the years 1972 and 1973, as Marlboro enticed away from B.R.M., stayed in 1974, too, and presented a programme of itґs own. One factory, but 2 separate teams, one car type, but 5 different chassis, and three drivers, whose mentality was as different as it could be: For this reason the great quarrell would be scheduled normally. The in those days 37 years old New Zealander Denis Clive Hulme (car no. 6) had been world champion 1967 in a Brabham Repco, he was also CanAm winner and belonged to the staff of McLaren since 1968 where hedid hard intercontinental work, because Denny, the Bear, drove for the Colnbrook based team in Indianapolis and CanAm in North America, in Europe and the rest of the world nearly all Grand Prix. At the beginning of the 1974 season Hulme decided to retire at itґs end, but won the first round of the championship for TEXACO-Marlboro in Buenos Aires/Argentina, when the leading Carlos Reutemen in the trapezoidal Brabham Ford ran out of fuel shortly before the end. Hulme became 7th in the worldchampionship with 20 points. After his retirement he stayed with McLaren for a consultant job ans still remained president of the drivers union GPDA, too. Later he decided to go back to his home country for ten years. Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood , 3 years younger than Hulme, a legend as a bike rider, as a Grand Prix driver not so brilliant, because not really interested in the complicated technological aspects of Formula One, drove the Yardley McLaren with car no. 33 originally Peter Revson had signed a contract for. In spite of the fact that Mike the Bike had to leave out the remaining 4 races of the season being replaced by David Hobbs in Austria and Italy, by Jochen Mass in Canada and the USA, he became 10th in the championship scoring 12 points. Hulme and Hailwood were men of highest professionalism and moral integrity. Nevertheless McLarenґs king in the chess game of the year 1974 was another on. It was the youngest of the troika. The American poet, essayist, and, above all, philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston Massachusetts, he died in the same region only one month before 79th birthday. He wrote the meanwhile famous treatise The American Scholar and John F. Kennedy cites him fourtimes in the chapter talking about Daniel Webster of his book Profiles in Courage. "Emerson, who?" asked the commentator at the track of Watkins Glen 1970 not knowing the surname of a new winner, Emerrrssson it roared ever out of 100.000 throats in Interlagos, Emmo he is named two decades later all over the United States of America. Emerson Fittipaldi, son of radio journalist Wilson senior and his wife Juzy coming from Lodz in Poland, was the youngest world champion in history driving a JPS Lotus Ford in 1972 and after Jackie Stewarts retirement at the end of 1973 he was the best Grand Prix driver of that time. In 1974 Fittipaldi wins his home Grand Prix at the 8 kilometres long Interlagos circuit being shortened because of a terible cloudburst, triumphs in Belgium because Nivelles is not Wterloo and takes the victory in a bitter cold Mosport at the Grand Prix of Canada. McLaren against Ferrari with Clay Regazzoni, above all with their rising star Niki Lauda: This struggle is the determining factor of the 1974 season and before the last round, the Grand Prix of the United States in Watkins Glen in the state of New York the duel is absolutely drawn because both competitors, Fittipaldi and Regazzoni, have scored 52 points, but the Swiss had only one victory to his credit. At the Nьrburgring where McLaren were engaged mor with themselves than with the other teams competing. Hulme and Fittipaldi crashed each other at the start, where the first broke off a back wheel and the last bent his suspension which made him drop out, too. And Hulme got the curios idea to enter the race again using Fittipaldiґs spare car with no. 5T on it with the consequence of being black-flagged and disqualified later. On the other hand Hailwood crashed, in the last but one lap and lying on the 5th place, into the barrier frontally at a speed of more than 200 km/h and broke both his legs very badly. Watkins Glen is not far away from the frontier of Canada where the winter often starts at the beginning of October. During the practice of the last Grand Prix in 1974 it is stormy and snowflakes are falling, the temperatures are around 0° Celsius, when Regazzoni only takes 11th place in the race, after 3 pit stops four times lapped, Jody Scheckter, with 45 points also a candidate for the title, retires caused by engine trouble, but Fittipaldi finishing 4th wins the first worldchampionship ever for McLaren. Winter in New York, summer in Sao Paulo, where they are able to celebrate so enthusiastically, but in Europe silent mourning for young Austrian Helmut Koinigg, with whom John Surtees wanted to start a first trial to reorganize his team after Rob Walker went to Yardley McLaren and Mike Hailwood. Kionnigg, a selfmademan as a competitor (Porsche works driver) and as a scientist (journalism and technology, at the end of 1974 writing his dissertation) would have been for that task, if there had been a possibility actually. "That thing", Wernher von Braun, the spaceflight pioneer, used to say in those days when he, who lived in the United States sinc the end of World War II, was interviewed by German speaking journalists about his Saturn V rocket. That thing that made Emerson Fittipaldi a world champion was named M23, founded the worldwide reputation of the enterprise, but for itґs designer Gordon Coppuck it was a happy chance hi and b not the result of continued successful work. With the M26 - M30 types as the successor models Coppuck brought McLaren pretty near to that position that is defined as bankruptcy, he was fired and the Berkshire team only could be saved by joining Ron Dennis` Project 4 which was a Marlboro idea, of course. From this point of view young John Barnard, one of Coppucks assistants when the M23 was under construction, got a lot of lessons to profit from until now in spite of the fact that his present design philosophy is more guided by the creation of values for eternity than by finding solutions for the all-day work. That must not be a great disadvantage for him necessarily because he has ever got a staff of highly qualified engineers bur corrections of his concepts in detail he considers as a personal affront not very seldom. The rustling of the leaves in the wind of the autumn has the effect of calmimg down, a lot of the trees are more than 1000 years old and at the main entrance a board, white blockletters on a sand coloured ground, welcomes the visitor but reminds him to obey the speed limit. The house of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon built out of natural stones with itґs large lawn in the foreground, cultivated flowers and bushes everywhere and the golf course, the childrenґs playground, the race course and the motor circuit with itґs landing strip for small aeroplanes (that make the birds take off from itґs surface out of grass everytime) in the middle. In Goodwood in the South of England in the county of Chicester the M23 started itґs career in winter 1972/73 and that thing was going like a bomb. as Denny Hulme told a reporter in an enthusiastic way and journalists he, who himself preferred watching television nearly every minutes of his spare time, hated more or less (later that changed when he became older, a fact very much respected not only by ZDF, Europeґs leading TV company). McLaren Ford M23. A car, drawn with the ruler, not with the curve templet, moderately wedge-shaped, slim in the front the small 12 inch wheels do accent additionally, but from the middle slowly wider with itґs radiators at the side integrated into the monocoque being able to protect the cockpit extremely against possible lateral crashes. The cockpit itself was driven into the direction of the front axle ( without surpassing it indeed). That did not only create enough space for a tank in the protected middle of the car but also influenced the weight balance (30% in the front, 70% in the back9 positively. The rear wing consisting out of one piece with itґs gurney flap at the end, curved like a banana, supported by a side rudder of big volume and the massive back wheels (both in the unlimited dimensions of those days) belonged to the characteristics of all cars at that time. The thing was flexible, because in 1974 there were 2 versions for the nose-scone (original and small for wide front wings) anf 3 for the airbox (the original one, a tall and very high one and a medium high one establishing itself at least). Later, in the year of 1976 this capability of development of the M23 showed itґs full potential when regulation changes made a lot of entrants confront with problems nearly unable to find a solution for in spite of the fact there were 2 disqualifications (in Jarama because of the car being too wide, in the Monza qualifying caused by overstepping the octane limit). Technological-functional design ever shows itґs athetical beauty - Gordon Murray, the designer of the McLaren BMW F1 road car, a wine expert coming from South Africa and close friend of former Beatle George Harrison (My Sweet Lord) is absolutely right because this statement is pretty logical: Itґs basis are the laws of nature. I know people who spend large sums on buying parts of the M23 series and they are neither nostalgians nor souvenir hunters. The money is a very good investment indeed, from every point of view. "Donґt throw anything away,everything will come back, the mini skirt, the thin ties," says Peter Weck from Vienna, actor with reputation, director and manger at the sam time playing one of his famous parts in a TV movie to his wife. About the forward moved cockpit of the M23 I have told you. But did you know that a removable steering-wheel was available for the first time and Denny Hulme crashed into the barrier of the Jochen Rindt Curve at a speed of 200 km/h exactly caused by this progressive step of safety technology? Teddy Mayer had not fixed it correctly again after he had demonstrated it to a few journalists in Zeltweg 1973. Did you hear that the McLaren astronauts Fittipaldi and Hulme were able to use onboard radio during the Watkins Glen practice of 1974? And tyre warmers did exist in those days, too. They were wool blankets stolen from the hotel but at least saving money had to be learned in 1974 because the most of the money diappeared in Switzerland where the sheikdoms installed their bank accounts in a discret manner. Methanol is a devil-made product. It is extremely poisoning, explosive and aggressive to a few kinds of synthetic materials. Because of that is used in industry as a thinner and for the production of the (cancer-causing) formaldehyde. first from a quantity of some 800 litres it burns with a seeable flame, little and yellow-orange as we know from Indianapolis where it is used as a fuel. In general it has got only 2 advantages: it can be mixed with water (that is important for a possible fight against fire) and it can be synthezized out of carbon monoxide and hydrogen or produced out of growing raw-materials like wood or sugar-cane. For this reason this fuel is available at any time in contrast to mineral oil thatґs ressourceswill end somewhere in the future. In winter 1973/74 there were a lots of doubts if the Formula One Worldchampionship had been able to be started in Buenos Aires as scheduled in spite of the fact that a single Grand Prix season needs only as much fuel as a Boeing 747 for a trip from London to New York City. Therefore McLaren sent one of their Ford Cosworth DFV units to the test stand of the factory owned engine shop after the mineral oil-based petrol had been substituted by methanol. In this way they had provided for the worst possible case. Nicholson McLaren Engines Ltd. , one of 6 engine factories authorized by Cosworth and like them having their faciulities in Northampton, is a subsidiary company of McLaren(50%). The other half of the shares is owned by John Nicholson, born in 1941 in auckland/New Zealand. He has got some reputation from Formula A racing and gave his debut in Formula One in 1974, too. The massive-looking Lyncar Ford with itґs Tyrrell nose and the triangle airbox appears for the first time in the rain of the Race of Champions in Brands Hatch that is won by Jacky Ickx in a Lotus Fors 72 after leading Niki Lauda had suffered under a problem with a shock absorber 3 laps before the end of the race. For the British Grand Prix Nicholson failed to qualify as many others the growing numbers of entrants has brought to the tracks. First the fear of the oil crisis , then the inflation: 1974 was the year of contrasts. Do you remember drivers like Ton Belsц from Denmark, the Pironi cousin Josи Dolhem, the young broker Rikki von Opel founding the Ensign team together with Mo Nunn, eddie Keizan from South africa in a private Tyrrell Ford 004 or the Interserie champion Leo Kinnunen of the Wihuri team driving a Surtees Ford? Do you remind cars like Maki, Parnelli, Trojan, Token or Amon? more prominet are the following names:Jan-Pierre Jabouille tried to qualify in Dijon and Zeltweg, but failed, Gerard Larrousse drove some races in a private Brabham Ford sponsored by elf and the Swiss cheese industry and in Brands Hatch Lella Lombardi, the tigress, gave her debut also in a Brabham. Funny was her car number: 208, the frequency of Radio Luxemburg (RTL), her sponsor. That thing went like driven on rails. The M23 had enormous grip in those days, mechanical and aerodynamical. Designed and built within only ten weeks it based on an amazing experiment Gordon Coppuck did at the end of 1971. A Cosworth DFV V8 engine had installed into the chassis of the wedge-shaped McLaren offenhauser M16 for Indianapolis thatґs relationship to the lotus Ford 72 cannot be denied. The modified rear suspension of the M19 Formula One car was added and the bastard was sent to a testing seession. At the end the Great Mac returned to Indy in the figure of the M24 where it triumphed in 1974 and 1976 both times with Johnny Rutherford driving. It became also a commercial success because a lot of private customers ordered one of this type. The M23 family consisted of 12 cars and from the pole position of Denny Hulme in the M23/1 in Kyalami on 1st March 1973 to Nelson Piquetґs last place at the grid in Monza on 10th September 1978 it took five and a half years. The last M23 ever made was no. 14 in May 1977 bought by American private driver Brett Lunger and with the M23/8 Jochen Mass won in Barcelona-montjuich where they had to stop after 29 laps because the accident of leading Rolf Stommelen in the Hill Ford and therefore only half points were scored. With the M23/3 Jody Scheckter lead Stewart and Fittipaldi in Paul Ricard 1973, but he also caused with it the greatest mass-collision in history some days later in Silverstone. Peter Revson won the race in the M2372 (that was bought by Dave Charlton in 1974) and in Mosport 1973,too, in the M23/4, that made Jacky Ickx coming home third at the Nьrburgring the same year after breaking his contract with Ferrari at mid-season. In the M23/8 Fittipaldiґs and Huntґs revised championship winning car (type designation M23/8(10)) young Gilles Villeneuve gave his debut in Silverstone 1977 in the only Grand Prix he had not driven for Ferrari. McLaren Ford M23: Not the Volkswagen of Formula One, but surely a classless automobil driven by the senior driver and the debutant, by the champion and the backmarker, by the working-class heroe (Bruno Giacomelli) and the aristocrat (Emilio de Villota). 25 years later only one of the McLaren troika of 1974 is still alive. Mike Hailwood crashed fatally in his road car, Denny Hulme died of a heart attack as well as the second M23 world champion James Hunt. Emerson Fittipaldi, meanwhile married for the second time, left Europe after some private and business problems, became Indy Car Champion in the United States of America and won the 500 Miles of Indianapolis twice. In 1974 he became not only world champion but also father for the first time, the name of the daughter is Juliana. That her baby photo decorated the instrument panel of the M23/8 ? Amusing, but not world-shaking. that Fittipaldi bought a dog, Grat Dane larger than himself, from a breeder in Cologne and named it McLaren ? Nice idea! Much more interesting I consider the story that Fittipaldiґs manager, Domingos Piedade from Portugal, caused a lot of hectic activities at the passport inspection or frontier crossing points, because he was the double of that man everybody who wanted to drive his car or to heat his house felt so much hatred about in those days - simply the bugaboo of the western world: He was called Sheik Yamani and was the oil minister of the Kinghood of Saudi Arabia. Klaus Ewald

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http://www.research-racing.de/The%20Great%20Mac.htm

Кстати. оттуда же узнаем, что фраза "To finish first you must first finish" - это один из постулатов развития Мака, заложенный в 1970 году Тедди Майером.

Рон лишь цитировал

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"ХПМ, возможно, имеет сложный характер, но с другой стороны - он очень дружелюбен. Он улыбается, когда выигрывает - это здорово. Он - яркая личность, индивидуальность - и это не позволяет ему соответствовать стилю McLaren" (с) Эдди Джордан