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Originally posted by PorscheGuy79
And that, for those of us here that are not familar, is a $600,000 compination of lightweight metals and carbon fiber named after the famous indiviual that started it all...
wow.
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That don't look like a McLaren or a FORD.
The McLaren Ford MP4/1 had been the first car ever using a carbon fibre chassis . Already in itīs first year it had won itīs first Grand Prix with John Watson in the cockpit, and it had been a very special race, because it was the British Grand Prix held at Silverstone. Two and a half months later, the carbon fibre monocoque prevented Watson from getting heavily hurt, when he had crashed into the Lesmo Curveīs armco barriers at a very high speed. Barnard had brought Nichols to McLaren for the Americanīs first ever job in Grand Prix Racing. A little later Niki Lauda decided to return into the business after a break of two years, convinced of the safety of the McLaren MP4 after Watsonīs Monza accident. A Williams, also offered to him and still supplied with an aluminum monocoque, the airline enterpreneur did not want to enter the cockpit of. Lauda knew accidents not only from the Nuerburgring in 1976.