Signed by Gordon Murray | 1995 McLaren F1 GTR Mach One Racing | McLaren Poster

Story behind

McLaren F1 GTR Mach One Racing

Before the McLaren F1 GTR shook the 1995 Le Mans, no other team had ever captured four of the top five places on a debut appearance. In January of 1995, just six short months before the 63rd Annual 24h Le Mans, Gordon Murray reluctantly agreed to turn the wildly popular McLaren F1 into a racing car. Tasked to make this transition from "the ultimate road car” to racing car was the head of GTR Race Development Team James Robinson. Of the original 7 McLaren F1 GTRs entered at the 1995 Le Mans, four ended up in the Top 5 including car no 51, co-branded by Harrods, that finished third. An all-British entry with a classy driver line-up featuring Andy Wallace, the veteran former F1 driver and five times Le Mans winner Derek Bell and his son Justin.